Technology

59201 readers

2831 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

393

End of the Road - Anandtech has closed down (www.anandtech.com)

submitted 2 months ago by jlh@lemmy.jlh.name to c/technology@lemmy.world

34 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] db2@lemmy.world 128 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Let's not forget about HotHardware. They're still carrying the torch of detailed hardware analysis as well my beloved NotebookCheck.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.