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by rfwhyte 1130 days ago
The Verge has to have some of the worst reviews on the entire internet. All they ever talk about is subjective stuff like how the product "Looks" and "Feels" and are seemingly incapable of doing any actual work to provide things like benchmarks, comparisons, charts, graphs, etc. Just more of the same low effort, low quality garbage reporting as usual from the Verge. Like how do you do an entire review and not have a single benchmark or even a remotely qualitative battery life test let alone meaningful comparisons to competitive products?
3 comments

I like knowing how something feels, there's a reason people buy more expensive laptops without better performance. There are other reviewers who can provide this information. Since it's subjective I'm happy to hear as many voices as possible.
I think this is pretty unfair, they do a recap of stats and include battery life and speaker loudness measurements. Like a sibling comment says, feel and experience matter also.

That said, it sounds like you'd be happier with Notebookcheck's review [0].

[0]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Core-i7-1370P-performance-debu...

Honestly from my experience laptop benchmarks are easily gamed and often useless. I'm way more interested in this kind of subjective review.