> For one, I think it's really hard to convey succinctly how well a product works. It's not that hard, you just need to use it and review that. Problem is, th

> For one, I think it's really hard to convey succinctly how well a product works. It's not that hard, you just need to use it and review that. Problem is, that takes a good couple of hours of seriously trying out the machine for seriously doing some work. The author of this article even took a couple of days, and did some serious Googling and tweaking to smooth out any wrinkles he encountered (which is the use case for anyone who buys the device because they are expensive: if they "just work" that's great, but if there's a work-around or fix, that's still better than if it "just doesn't work"). But for many review sites, it's much faster to just run some benchmarks (or just copy the numbers from somewhere), compare that to some previous models, some current/similar models, and review that. It doesn't take a lot of effort, time or creative thinking.