http://www.anandtech.com/show/4225/the-ipad-2-review
A iPad 2 review I challenge you to finish in one sitting.
A iPad 2 review I challenge you to finish in one sitting.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4225/the-ipad-2-review
A iPad 2 review I challenge you to finish in one sitting.
I haven't even read the review yet and I can already tell that they must not think it's the most perfect device ever made. How can I tell? It's the comments here. If a reviewer simply slathers praise on an Apple product, the responses here will be "good read", "excellent review", or "the reviewer did a great job with the analysis." If they find flaws then it's "this review was terrible", "why is this person even a journalist", or "this entire news source is irrelevant". Some of the 12 year olds around here make me sick.
I haven't even read the review yet and I can already tell that they must not think it's the most perfect device ever made. ... "this entire news source is irrelevant". Some of the 12 year olds around here make me sick.
I used the original iPad maybe 10 times while owning it since day 1.
I've already ordered the iPad 2... but I am on the fence on canceling.
I haven't even read the review yet and I can already tell that they must not think it's the most perfect device ever made. How can I tell? It's the comments here. If a reviewer simply slathers praise on an Apple product, the responses here will be "good read", "excellent review", or "the reviewer did a great job with the analysis." If they find flaws then it's "this review was terrible", "why is this person even a journalist", or "this entire news source is irrelevant". Some of the 12 year olds around here make me sick.
That being said, their review of the iPad 2 is probably aimed mainly at developers and hardcore tech-fans. It's not a review that an average iOS user should base his/her purchase decision on.
Now that's what I call disposable income.
Yeah, I have to say that after reading that entire review, it's clear that once respected tech sites like Anandtech will be left behind in the coming years.
A $299 Windows machine will do what a MBP will do, just saying.
Run OSX (at all?) and Mac software at something beyond a snails pace, if at all? Just sayin.
... Face it, if Apple released anything in the condition the Xoom is in they would be evicerated. The softball approach to Xoom and Honeycomb aside, I thought Anandtech represented well.
It's not just the Xoom. They just tend to take an oddly hard approach against Apple.
For instance, in the Nokia N8 review they basically said "it's a outdated CPU but yeah, we're sure Nokia made the right choice since Symbian doesn't need a fast CPU and it helps battery life."
Now the N8 had the slowest, most outdated CPU of any phone in that price bracket at the time. I was very puzzled as to why a tech spec loving site like Anandtech would take such a softball approach especially when the battery life of the N8 wasn't anything exceptional. If Apple had the slowest CPU in the business, you know Anandtech would've crucified them for it. Worse for the N8 they just said "It's the best Symbian and we're pleased to see the improvement." (Symbian S^3 still sucks in UI, I mean...Symbian had some good things but it was time to die)
Somewhat like that, Anandtech wondered if the sluggish UI of the Xoom is due to the Tegra 2 processor instead of Android. It seems like a weird excuse considering Android always had some of more non-smooth UI around compared to equivalent iOS, WP7 or PalmOS hardware. Maybe they just have soft spots for cross-platform open OS like Android and Symbian, which would be understandable.