New theory

Alright.........this is regoddamndiculous. TG hires Charlie ' I wouldnt know what a CPU was if you shoved one up my arse' Demerjian?????? WTF is that about. Does Toms want to become known as the worst site on the face of the planet?????

I have a new theory:
Best Of Media is trying to deliberately destroy Toms in an effort to boost the french site EnNumeriques ratings

Omid had already damaged toms, but since BoM bought it:
They have taken it further off track.
Thay have added newer and useless sections
They slowly been working to replace any actuall articles with adverts
They let the hardware site slip off into a third tier, behind the curve, also ran
They destroyed the forums
They destroyed the forums again
They destroyed the forums once more just for good measure.

Now they hire an internationally known imbecile?

No offence to the UK bretheren, but charlie falls into the catagory "Galatic Moron". Hes no Hillary, but hes a great enough twat that you guys should have nuetered him and locked him in a padded isolation room after hist first article

OMG... I thought we had the top slot here in ZA in terms mindless decision makers but this just might push us to #2..

[/Has flash back to the old forum and cracks a tear... ]

I used to, but they become more ambiguous each year so as to confuse me even more when I go and read them with 80% surety - how can you conclude with a 50/50 spread? Closest I get is architecture exploits.

When I first encountered Toms, I based 90% of my hardware buying decisions on what was written in the articles.

Now? Zero. I read through their articles and develop a splitting headache.

I joined the forums after a few years, because there was a huge concentration of skill, impartiality and intelligence.

Now? Noobs. Idiots. Fanboys. The occasional bright person, but most of the geniuses stuffed off.

The forum format worked beautifully, it was easy to use, and it just... worked.

Now? Tinker, tinker, tinker, splat. This new format to replace the old is pathetic. It's close to unusable, it's moronic, and the only useful bits are eclipsed by the sheer unusability of this damned format.

Finally, in the old days, a page would load pretty quickly on my 1Mbps wireless link. Now I often wait up to a minute or so for anything to happen.

Too true. I've been thinking about upgrading for a while, but have been out of the PC tech loop too long and Tom's is about as much use as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

Can anyone recommend any decent sites for consumers who'd rather not buy a 4 grand machine that looks like something out of a cheap sci-fi movie?

The problem I have is finding anything that includes compatability testing with Linux. Anandtech have not posted a Linux article in nearly 12 months last time I looked

Well, llama, what are you looking to do? I've been doing a lot of research lately, so I can help a bit.

My router doesn't run at all. It just sits on a shelf and routes. Hence the name router.

It's not called a runner, silly primate.

=o)

woo hoo!

If a train stops at a train station and a bus stops at a bus station why do we have work stations?

Oh sod off.

Mugz has a history of doing the complete opposite.

I'll show you something hard... *unzips trousers*


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And I took you for a nylon zipper kind of guy. Hardest thing on you below the belt eh buddy?

*Hands Llama some Viagra*

...*gets mounted by aroused llama*...

Huh?

Dang.. and I was convinced that it would be TV with a strapon that would have been the first to take the dings drainpipe.

Riser, you'd need a Viagra under each eyelid just to look hard, pansy.