I think the moral of the story is that there is no point in going gaga over the numbers that hardware manufacturers serve up unless and until you can get your h

I think the moral of the story is that there is no point in going gaga over the numbers that hardware manufacturers serve up unless and until you can get your hands on the actual device (whether that be phone, netbook, CPU, GPU or plain old desktop) and try it out for yourself. I think this is a problem that has long been embedded in tech journalism. We go all breathless over an extra 10% mega this or giga that, but 99% of the time that extra 10% doesn't matter. But if they weren't getting excited over the latest fraction of an increment, what would they report on?