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Originally Posted by kartu
Kinda offtopic: After "kind request" from nVidia, Anand "first refused" but then, because of some ridiculous reasons "on his own" decided to include overclocked, cherry picked, hardly available card from nVidia into review of new ATI cards running at stock clock. The fact that nvidia's card was overclocked wasn't even visible on most charts. Previously iPhone dissapeared from a number of side by side comparison shots, where it would look unfavourable (it was obvious from the charts, that it had inferior screen). When article's author was asked "why is iphone missing on those photos" answer was "oh, I've just forgotten it in my pocket".
After writing unfavorable article about nVidia card, Anand has once missed very important launch (they simply didn't get the cards) so I guess it "taught them a lesson". Marketing people simply tell reviewers what to do, on which features to focus and so on, nowadays it has become a norm...  |
Ah, I've noticed that with reviews going back to the 80s. Nothing quite as clear as that, but it's obvious that the bigger the company is the better the reviews will be.