End of the Road - Anandtech has closed down
End of the Road - Anandtech has closed down
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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.
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.
Let's not forget about HotHardware. They're still carrying the torch of detailed hardware analysis as well my beloved NotebookCheck.
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.
Yeah it's a shame because there was a time that Toms hardware was so good and often neck and neck with Anandtech in terms of great articles to read, but at some point it became more sensationalist and the line betweens tom's guide and tom's hardware blurred (with tom's guide seeming to take over). There are still nuggets that are okay, but just not like it used to be.
Tom's Hardware wrote plenty of junk back in the day. I remember articles where Tom's Hardware would say "AMD trashes Intel in this benchmark", but the difference was barely measurable. It was like they had a form fill for what to say after showing a graph. If one side was ahead by any margin at all, it trashed the competition.
Anandtech was more sobering, but their website was a mess. Go to any section of the site (storage, gpus, whatever) and product announcements are sorted together with reviews. There are about ten product announcements for every review. When trying to get a comparison of different products for a build, it was hard to track down a useful article.
Neither site had much changed their layout in 20 years, but Tom's Hardware at least makes it easier to find what you want.