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Consumer Reports annual "Best & worst computers" edition

post #1 of 3
5/7/08 at 4:53pm
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June 2008 just came out. You have to pay for the content on their site but I happened to have a copy of the magazine on my desk...well worth the cost/read IMO.

I'm too lazy to type a bunch of the content here, plus there's the whole copyright issue, but...
Dell did well in some categories.
Apple & Lenovo were cited for top laptop tech support
Gateway/eMachines got desktop best buys
Apple #1 all-in-one
Samsung had the top 17 & 19" LCDs
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post #2 of 3
5/7/08 at 6:52pm
Not to knock CR, as they generally do good work reviewing various things, but in previous issues I've read (I admit I haven't seen this one), they don't seem to know much about computers. They'll typically only compare about 10 machines, all of which you could get at Best Buy, and they won't be broken down into categories. Anyway, that's just my opinion. For cars, they're tops. For computers, I prefer Laptop Magazine, PC World, etc.
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post #3 of 3
5/13/08 at 1:41pm
I wouldn't consider Consumer reports to be good for car reviews either since the wife of the editor in chief happens to hold a pretty high level posistion with Toyota. That may not be the case anymore, but it had been in the past. For computers they seem to do it right because they do it from a layperson's perspective. Though I wonder what their methodology for their evals is. Are the machines provided by the vendor, or does CR do a straw-man purchase of the computer?
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