| From: | Sigurbj�rn Birkir L�russon |
| Date: | 6 Aug 2001 at 22:46:52 |
| Subject: | RE: AA22 review of the PlexWriter |
Neil said,
> You cannot evaluate products in such a one dimensional way as
> degrees of good or bad. That's why I don't like score boxes
> on reviews, most products are far too complex to bring down
> to a simple mark out of 5, 10 or 100.
I can certainly agree with this.
>
> You need to read the review and decide how suitable the product is for
> *your* needs and *your* situation. The review pointed out
> that for the majority of Amiga owners, this drive wold be
> something of a waste of money as you wouldn't be able to use
> it to its full potential.
Sure, but I don't see how that is a factor? There is nothing wrong with
buying hardware that you can't get everything from at the moment, when you
do decide to upgrade to something faster, it will just be all the more
usefull. Aren't most amiga users at the moment using IDE drives that they
aren't even getting 33% of the performance out of, especially with the a1.2k
and a4k IDE bus? As far as buying a cd-writer, I'd say you should always
buy the fastest you can get, somehow doesn't seem smart to buy a 4x writer,
just because your current machine can't handle more speed atm, you can
always just use it as a 4x writer. As for the comment in the review about a
SCSI equipped version of the writer, I can see Plextors point, the current
ATA-100 specification is fast enough and cheap enough to bury SCSI die in
the home and workstation pc, except for the die-hard power user, which is
probably not enough market share for them to bother with.
> I cold have connected it to my PC and seen how it worked on
> that IDE interface, but then people would complain about
> reviewing products in PC in an Amiga magazine, and I've
> already been called a "PC Lamer" on one Amiga mailing list
> this week :(
Now, why I would someone call you a PC Lamer, and what exactly is a PC
Lamer, 95% of the current computer owning population, many of which are
amigans as well? :)
>
> The fact that you are porting this at all means you were able
> to distinguish between comments on the product and the
> context. So you should be thanking me for not patronising you
> by reducing the review to a string of monosyllabic adjectives :)
The review wasn't bad at all, I just thinks it's wrong to put a device down
because it's too fast :)
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