Hear hear!
I'm sure though that many would say we suffer anyway when a
company brings out a product that woefully underperforms despite
the prior hype, or other products that offer little extra real
gain in performance - especially those which make no sense at all
once price is taken into account. There are numerous CPU, mbd and
gfx card products around like this just now, eg. the original
Phenom1, the dual-core AMD 7K series (the 6000+ is a better buy),
some of the GTX variants, etc.
Review sites could do better in helping users to make decisions.
My biggest gripe is the lack of upgrade advice, ie. testing new
products in older setups. Real questions people have are things
like, I have an older AM2 mbd, is the Phenom2 a useful upgrade?
New products always get tested by being paired with the latest
matching 'system' (mbd/CPU/RAM/etc.) This is great for finding
out the true potential of a product, and useful for those buying
completely new systems, but not much help for anyone using older
or mixed setups which probably accounts for the majority of those
reading the reviews.
There's obviously a vast range of possible combinations of older
hardware that people could have, so answering every exact
question isn't viable. But even a single example would be useful,
eg. testing Phenom2 in a normal AM2 mbd, or testing the latest
mainstream/top-end gfx products with an older setup.
Ian.