THG Debuts Networking Guide

fist_187 writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has opened their new site Tom's Networking. The name pretty much says it all."

I'll say it.......

[USAPatriot]

I'll say it because no one else will. Tom is an ass.

But more importantly his reviews suck! I haven't even looked at this one but i venture to guess it's at least 15 pages, milk that advertising cash cow, tom!

If brevity is the soul of wit, then you are one dumb mother fucker Tom.

Now for the informative part of by rant:

try www.hardocp.com
or
www.anandtech.com
or
www.ac eshardware.com

all 100% better than tom's

Person held responsible...

[XplosiveX]

Im starting to wonder if Tom's Netowrking even worked in the first place when the story was submitted. Who is to blame for this? The submitter of the story or the slashdot poster?

Has anyone actually been to the site before to know that it even exists?

There has been a lot of THG's articles posted here over the last few weeks so maybe it was just like, "oh well this is THG related so it has to be good" without even checking the link they post it?

Re:I'll say it.......

[Anonymous Coward]

Admittedly Anandtech write solid reviews, but HardOCP is run by an idiot with an ego problem.

I stopped visiting Anandtech when he started linking keywords in his articles to advertisers. The only indication that the links were advertisements was that they were a different color (orange I believe). Embedding advertising in editorial content is quite dubious and his ethics are therefore questionable.

I agree with your comment about HardOCP's owner. A few years back I had an e-mail exchange with him on the issue of video cards. He was doing an expose on ATI's dubious practices and presenting himself as some kind of advocate for the little guy. Yet when I sent lengthy messages detailing similar practices in the NVidia camp, he really didn't want to know about it and finished up insulting me personally.

I have similarly negative opinions of Tom and his Hardware Guide. With everyone vying for more hits, more review hardware, and more advertising dollars, people of integrity are hard to come by in the hardware review business.

Re:Networking,

[Serveert]

After reading his horrific review of Opterons I got the picture really quick: he doesn't know his head from his ass. Naively I emailed him asking for clarifications, it has been a month and he hasn't responded yet. Aceshardware and even anandtech are much better, more thorough and actually know what they're talking aobut.

Re:First review summary...

[Hast]

Gigabit cards can differ a lot since some use drivers to to stuff. (Ie it's your CPU that's doing the job.) Since Gigabit cards are pretty damned fast this can have a noticable impact on your computers performance.

That's why you should go with the bigger cards, or just be content with 100Mb since that most likely will satisfy your needs anyways.

Re:I'll say it....... (Flash ads love you)

[gnu-generation-one]

"Quit being so damn elitist"

What's elitist? I'm not going to read a website with high-colour animations, because I physically can't read things with Flash animations next to them. My brain can't concentrate on reading text when there's an animated hammer, or swirly crap, or strobing blue and red trying to grab my attention.

If a website has Flash on it, I won't read it, nor reccommend it, nor ever come back to it. That's not elitist, that's just something the website owners need to know when they wonder why people follow a link to their site, and then not read the article or any of the rest of the website.