MemeMachineGo!

You’ll be shocked, shocked to learn that some computer hardware review sites are disintegrious. But what I really liked about that Slashdot thread was readers’ recommendations of sites that seem not to be selling good reviews to the highest bidder:

• Dan’s Data


• AnandTech


• [H]ardOCP


• Tech Report


• XBit Labs


• Ars Technica


• Storage Review

Tom’s Hardware and CNET were most often mentioned as sites to actively distrust.

Unfortunately, none of these are living up to Consumer Reports’ standard of buying all test products from retailers, anonymously, and refusing all advertising. (Consumer Reports’ computer reviews are of the Dell vs. Gateway variety, not for geeks building their own machines.)

Of those sites, I’ve looked at Storage Review extensively, and it looks good. I also spent a lot of time recently reading Silent PC Review, and trust them.

Of course, “a couple of Slashdot posters said so” isn’t the world’s most rigorous standard of authority. Better not trust me, either.