• db2@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Finally, for everyone who still needs their technical writing fix, our formidable opposition of the last 27 years and fellow Future brand, Tom’s Hardware

    So the actual reason is the parent company doesn’t wasn’t to run both.

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      20 days ago

      Yeah this is definitely a brand merger in some ways.

      I imagine it might be due to profitability, too. I think the rate of articles has slowed down in the last 5 years, and I think losing Ian Cutress’s analysis was also tough for their articles.

      It feels like a lot of the hardware journalism these days has moved to YouTube, like Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed, TechTechPotato, Moore’s Law Is Dead, etc.

      I think Chips and Cheese seems to be the biggest site for detailed hardware analysis these days.

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      20 days ago

      But Tom’s Hardware is awful.

      Any article I’ve seen from them has either been so low detail it feels like someone used ChatGPT 0.1 to write it, or it’s so blatantly just and advertisement for whatever sponsor they’re talking about.

      Of course, that means AnandTech probably was still decent and since it was decent it cost money to run, so fuck it, let’s just see how much we can get nvidia to pay us to post fluff pieces instead.