I suppose that I am not the only one waiting for Anandtech's word on the new retina iMac. Ryan Smith said on Tweeter on october 31st that he would publish it "next week", but we are more than a month later and there is no sign of the review! I wonder what is taking them took so long and why they did not respect the expectations that they generated. Any thoughts?
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Anandtech review and broken expectations
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I have been aware of this too, something has gone wrong. Is it a commercial decision or have things just gone down hill since Anand left? It just doesn't make sense that they said it would be 'next week' over a month ago (I saw the Tweet too).
There's no possible way Anandtech could ever be the same after Anand left. I refer to the site now as "tech."
Yeah, he really was a legend. I read his self written obituary and how he left the site in good hands but there really isn't anything to compare. He was a brilliant journalist, amazingly he was self self taught. But he perfectly walked the tightrope of an incredibly knowledgable tech that impressed his enthusiasm and yet could still write for the layman.
The current crop don't hit the same heights and dare I say it are quite a boring read.
Gone but not forgotten.
Its really a shame IMO. I don't have another goto for quality tech reviews that I'd come to expect from Anandtech.
At the end of the day it was all about money. But don't begrudge Anand that, he paid his dues. Let's hope there will be another site we all end up latching onto as Anandtech becomes more and more irrelevant as time goes on. Let me know if you find one.
I have been with Anand since the very beginning. About 1996 if I recall. He was and is truly one of the greats. So rare when it happens, so wonderful. But, as with all of us, the comet burns dim, then bright, then dim. That is the way.
But Ford still makes good cars even though Henry Ford is dead.
All Anand's hard work does not instantly turn bad as soon as he leaves.
I will be giving it a chance and cutting it/them some slack. Because the time with Anand was that good. And his legacy deserves my respect.
But Ford still makes good cars even though Henry Ford is dead.
All Anand's hard work does not instantly turn bad as soon as he leaves.
I will be giving it a chance and cutting it/them some slack. Because the time with Anand was that good. And his legacy deserves my respect.
I'm waiting for the review, too... and for my RiMac 
I contacted Anandtech through Facebook... I hope I'll get an answer soon.
I contacted Anandtech through Facebook... I hope I'll get an answer soon.
I wonder if they had to order one themselves thus going through the same ordering process as us mere mortals. In that case there could be some delays just like the people in this thread have: iMac 5K delays thread (please add your data!)
@zAAz - thanks for doing that, I too have been patiently waiting on the review before ordering my machine. However, I had to pull the trigger last week to have any chance of getting it before the holidays so I hope the review is good! If not then I guess I still have the option to return or change the configuration. I went with 4GHz i7, 1TB SSD, 295x GPU and 8GB RAM (adding 16GB from Crucial myself) so not much I can change really. My biggest concern is the 295x GPU and whether it is being pushed beyond a sensible thermal envelope. I hope AnandTech review the 295x config otherwise it probably won't shine much light for me.
The 295x is fine. It just runs hot and throttles a little. That's about it. No real surprises. It's a great machine. I've been loving mine since day 1.
I am enjoying mine, but I'll still read the review, of course.
It is a fantastic machine and since I do not do any hard core stuff with it, I am OK with the heat, or in my case, lack thereof. I did get the 295x because that is a whole lotta pixels to be moving around no matter what
Thanks again, Anand, for all your amazing work!
It is a fantastic machine and since I do not do any hard core stuff with it, I am OK with the heat, or in my case, lack thereof. I did get the 295x because that is a whole lotta pixels to be moving around no matter what
Thanks again, Anand, for all your amazing work!
Their tweet said it was most likely going to be a 290, but then it also said the review would be out weeks ago. Things change.
Maybe they changed their mind and ordered another one with m295x and had to wait to receive it.
Or maybe they ordered a base model AND a fully loaded model so they could do a comparison? ;-)
I remember that short after release from 5k iMac I read that Anandtech was doing a test only on the base model.
They're running out of time to get that review released this week...
It is starting to be seriously embarrassing for them. Let's hope the wait will be worth it.
One of the most critical aspects of being a journalist is hitting your deadlines.
Yeah, I tweeted to them a few days ago but didn't get an answer either. Very disappointing really.
https://twitter.com/meerkat1410/status/543378394046791680
To be honest, I'm at the point where I really couldn't care less what they say in their review because the time when it could have made a difference has passed. My iMac is preparing for shipment from Apple and therefore I'll spend up to 14 days doing my own review once it arrives.