Wow, that takes me back. I used to prefer Anandtech to Ars Technica, Hot Hardware, Tom’s Hardware, etc.
But I haven’t visited any of them in like a decade, so I can see why they might be shutting down.
Anand la shimpi, the founder, left almost a decade ago, and that seems to have weakened it a good bit, then we got YouTube channels like GN and we just blast them into out feeds quickly because we don’t care about the specific numbers as much as a broad brush.
I remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered, but now things are so fast it’s a difference you can’t always easily see unless you’re trying to run over 4k and the game is jokingly badly optimized.
I remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered, but now things are so fast it’s a difference you can’t always easily see
Yea, I remember back in the day a couple years old system would be obviously out of date and painful (IF you weren’t just using it for simple stuff like office work) to use. The past 15 years or so things have been just so efficient and quick that I’ve been extending my hardware refresh cycles more and more.
I just replaced my old maxed out T440p with its 4th gen i7 last year after going strong since 2015
remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered
At this point, you could almost just assume next gen CPU is 10% faster than the one that was 10% faster last year.
GPUs are a little more wild, but that’s more a side effect of all 3 having wild swings due to hardware changes and driver updates but it’s still just a single graph you have to update every few months. Not really enough to run a business on.
This made me nostalgic, so I just hopped back on techguy.org and logged in again. Member there for 22 years and haven’t logged on in a decade, but they still had my little profile picture of Goku saved. Answered somebody’s hardware question. I still got it! Lol
Yeah about the same, I visited /., anadtech, tom’s, betanews, etc about daily maybe 20 years ago, but I haven’t been to those in a decade for sure, except slashdot I still go there
I’m in the same boat, in the early days of Android (Galaxy S 1 days) I used to go to their site just as frequently as Tom’s Hardware, TechPowerUp, etc. because they were on top of most new customizable ROMs if I remember right.
I haven’t had a reason to go back since it has become increasingly more difficult to get a custom ROM on any Galaxy phone, and I almost completely forgot about the site until this announcement.
