Comment Re:It's hard to draw an audience for laptop conten (Score 1) 29
That's a reasonable point. I failed to mention that along with the mainstreaming/commodification of laptops and the resulting consumerist orientation, technically oriented reviews have essentially evaporated and so the quality of current laptop journalism is generally abysmal. That kind of deep technical info is exactly what I would try and enumerate on the sites that I ran myself, but compiling that info is tedious and while it leads to high quality content, the page goes stale in a year or two after the next refresh cycle and it stops generating revenue. It's a tough business model to float these days. If I'm trying to find things like that now, I first look at notebookcheck which has a pretty decent database, then I'll look at specsheet PDFs, and finally I'll look at somewhere like provantage or insight that tend to have more detailed specifications on a lot of the models that they sell. There is a site called productindetail that aggregates a lot of this and is worth bookmarking. Still, real world battery life and speaker output are going to be hard to find without a real user review. That's where forums came in, but even that got eaten alive by reddit.
