Just because they don't focus on benchmarks in their marketing does not mean that there isn't some serious behind the scenes effort going on. If you want your

Just because they don't focus on benchmarks in their marketing does not mean that there isn't some serious behind the scenes effort going on. If you want your end result to run smoothly, your internal engineering metrics are probably looking a lot like the guts of an in depth Anandtech article. I bet they know exactly what their maximum frame delay, FPS, load times etc while loading and using their core apps are across every revision of the hardware and software, probably even using an automated system. For what it's worth, I doubt he'll be so specialized - my guess is some kind of consumer advocate focusing on a higher level (of which performance would be just one part). Essentially reviewing products before they're released, probably even while they are still hypothetical or in prototype phase.