I haven't seen a camera review from anandtech in a long time, I'm certainly not qualified to write any, but found great value in previous reviews/guides, and would like to see them return.
The more the merrier, I really enjoy reading articles here @ anandtech. Would love to see some camera reviewing and everything else. Aslong as it's about tech. My writing skills are horrible so this won't apply for me.
But I hope you guys keep up the good work! I'm afraid checking this site has become an addiction :)
I remember when I found AnandTech and was attracted here by the high quality writing and quality content that were obviously head and shoulders above anything out on the web--they made THG look about as well informed as the sales staff at Circuit City. (Not that adding me as a reader improved the average quality of the readership any... :)
It's only thanks to RSS that I don't waste all my time constantly checking for new AT articles. Thanks Anand! And please keep up the high standards and high quality as you add new writers!
aside: Anand, there's been talk in the forums here of problems with Sandforce SSDs, with BSODs and inability to resume from sleep. Can you clue us in with your usual insightfulness? Thanks!
I thought Sandforce BSOD/sleep issues were old news. I read about them before I bought mine a couple months ago, and experienced the problems. I just decided not to sleep my machine anymore. Full-off or full-on. A firmware update may eventually fix it, but I'm not too worried.
I'm glad that you are willing to cast your net into the community in hopes of reaping new talent. I have never written an article for the tech community, but it would be fun to see if I am up to the task. The critical feedback alone would be worth the effort.
One category I don't see up there is desktop computer cases. While I know it's difficult to standardize on a single test platform, I find that there are relatively few review sites posting articles on new computer cases these days in any reliable fashion (of the 20 websites I visit daily, bit-tech.net is the only group that does this with any regularity).
Possibly off-topic: A regular problem in general that I see, not just with AnandTech, is the steady decline in use of proper grammar. I know the job of an editor to check for content and consistency, and I understand a writer has to utilize style to keep readers interested, but would it kill anyone to read through an article to check for grammar and typos?
I would love to write memory articles for AnandTech. I have not written a lot of reviews or articles but I have written some so this might be enjoyable. I will have to submit a sample.
It says in the article: "If you're interested in writing for AnandTech, simply email your name, location (you can write from anywhere) and a writing sample to callforwriters AT anandtech DOT com. "
How broad do you guys want to cover on the technology spectrum for news? I know you want to stay closely related to computer systems, but I didn't know if you had other interests as well (i.e.: space exploration). While space exploration and the technologies behind it is my forte, I am also interested in covering other topics as well.
Thanks for the great articles you folks write. I trust the content I find here more than any other tech site I currently read and that is soley because of the depth of knowledge, fairness and quality writing I find here time and time again.
For you prospective writers: -Ignore sensationalism. Your job is to know your topic and write unbiased reports. Let us, the reader, hash out how we feel and argue in these forums. -Write at a level that demonstrates your depth of knowledge but still allows the less knowledgeable to understand what you are reviewing. -Have fun! We don't want to sleep through articles; give us quality content and spice it with a bit of fun. The current group does great at this.
Please continue to bring us the best tech reviews on the web.
With great respect Anand, while the technical content here is almost uniformly excellent, the quality of the writing itself is...let's say "quite variable." Since sloppy writing impedes getting information across to your readers, what you could really use is a decent copy editor. (And no, I'm not looking for the job!)
Respectfully, I've written for a few sites and Jarred is simply the best and easiest editor I've ever had the pleasure of working for. I'd personally stack this site's quality and reputation against any of the other big shots, and there are definitely much, much worse tech sites out there.
I think Jared should be fired from his editing responsibilities tomorrow. Not because he's a bad editor (I'm sure he's excellent) but rather because I think his competitive advantage lies in writing articles. Jared's overclocking and buyers guide articles are sorely missed.
Dustin writes: "Respectfully, I've written for a few sites and Jarred is simply the best and easiest editor I've ever had the pleasure of working for."
I didn't think that AT had an editor, which probably says it all. Writers don't need the easiest editor, they need the most effective one.
One obvious and recent example would be the headline of your otherwise perfectly respectable article: "HP Envy 17: HP's MacBook Pro Killer?"
Please, not another "XYZ Killer" comment. That's simply technical and journalistic laziness, and unworthy of AT's standing in the online technical community. An effective editor would never have let that pass, or never have applied that headline (whichever was the case).
And: "...there are definitely much, much worse tech sites out there."
Also, since I'm commenting, I want to mention the computer case evaluations and the much too little attention that mATX motherboard reviews get.
I mean yeah, we all like to compensate for our sexual shortcomings with huge cases and full ATX motherboards but the truth is... nowadays almost nobody needs 5 expansion slots (except for SLI or CF) since everything except the TV tuner is integrated.
Someone need to get the message to manufacturers about making good quality cases for mATX form factor and also performance cases that don't look like a star-ship... we may all be enthusiasts but we're not all 40 year old virgins living in our mother's basement.
I've seen great mATX boards out there with SLI capabilities that are not reviewed anywhere and I have yet to find a case that's neither horizontal or huge or without neons, exposed insides or alien looking paint jobs.
For people like me who like to look serious and secretly kick ass, please find us a voice and help us chose the right hardware for the job.
It's the job of an editor to show tough love, not warm fuzzies.
Seriously, the complaints about misleading and sensationalist headlines are valid. The complaints about a lack of copy-editing for grammatical and spelling errors are valid. The complaints about stories being put up with mislabeled (or missing) graphs and inserts are valid. Head-in-the-sand won't make those problems go away; neither will a group-hug.
The editor is there to make the writer LOOK good, not FEEL good.
And as for worse tech sites... who cares? That doesn't justify sloppiness. AT is claiming to be the best. Fine.. back it up with results. You're being held to a journalistic standard, not a blog standard.
I used to do nearly all of the final editing/posting of articles, but frankly that was too much for any one person. So these days, I edit/rewrite the PSU articles from Martin, I usually read through all of Johan's articles and make minor edits before they go up, and I read Dustin's stuff and any other notebook review before they go live. If I see a glaring error in an article from someone else, I'll also go and fix that, but otherwise I don't edit every article. Most of the time, I don't really make major changes unless something is really wrong; I let the writers have their own style and voice, and people get to know a personality slightly more that way. Or that's my theory.
One of the things the readers don't generally realize is that many articles are in the finishing steps when NDA expires, so there's not a whole lot of time to carefully review and edit each article. Imagine one of the GPU articles that are 5000+ words getting wrapped up at midnight, and then along comes an editor and says, "no, we can't post this because there are some grammar errors, the headline needs work, and...." And that's assuming the copy editor is even awake when a review is ready to post.
In the grand scheme of things, a headline that you may not like on occasion (i.e. HP Envy 17: a MacBook Pro Killer?) is a drop in the bucket. It looks like a MacBook in styling, and that's what many people were saying when it originally launched. Most readers just went along and read the article (or not) without complaining, but the Apple crowd in particular loves to jump on anything that so much as suggests someone can compete with Jobs and his crew. And sometimes, it's just fun to ruffle their feathers a bit. ;-)
JarredWalton writes: "In the grand scheme of things, a headline that you may not like on occasion (i.e. HP Envy 17: a MacBook Pro Killer?) is a drop in the bucket... but the Apple crowd in particular loves to jump on anything that so much as suggests someone can compete with Jobs and his crew."
Sorry, but you seem to be avoiding the real point, one I thought would be made evident by my not using the company names. It's not about HP or Apple or Dell or anyone else.
It's about lazy writing and trite metaphors. Write like the National Enquirer and that's the level of respect you earn. As simple as that.
(You do, however, have my full sympathy regarding exigent deadlines.)
Is it safe to assume that your choice of sentence structure is a sly reference to the less-than-stellar grammar that afflicts AT articles? My Sarcas-O-Meter is on the fritz.
If AT wants a copy editor, I don't know if I'd be a good fit. If you guys want a style snob that will nitpick the living tar out of every article until it meets a certain standard of quality, I might be able to help ;-)
I didn't claim to be a grammar expert. I just get tired of seeing basic words spelled incorrectly. And my brain exploding as I try to read a sentence that looks like it came from a 2nd grader.
Does your push into blogging/news have any effect on the DailyTech links you guys provide? I can't remember exactly how it was a few years ago, but I seem to remember Anandtech and Dailytech being integrated a lot more... maybe it was the same site? And now it seems that Anandtech wants to compete directly with Dailytech. :) In any case - interesting.
What is the time frame for us to submit something? I would like to submit something, but I do not currently have anything on hand to submit. So I would need to write something up.
It would be nice to see 'backward clickability' of news articles when one is reading them from AnandTech web site. I remember the days when I would look on the right of the screen of the AnandTech web site for news snippets and if I was interested in reading more of a particular news I would click on the link and read it and consequently press "Backspace" (or press left on the scroll wheel of a mouse button) button to get back to AnandTech from DailyTech but for two or so years now I have been clicking on each interesting news article at DailyTech and being burdened with clicking "x" at the top of the web page tab in order to close it so I could return to the AnandTech in order to click on the next news article in order to close the new tab again. The layout of the DailyTech and their fonts desire better and is hard on the eyes--to me that web site is worse than AnandTech and I do miss the 'good ol' days' of the two web site having been integrated together as a smooth working mechanism. I am glad that the AnandTech and the DailyTech web sites would be organized together again and hope for a smoother operation thereof.
On the side note I would like to see main big articles with lots of in depth details of the inner workings of something posted in a separate box of the web page while 'lesser' articles with mediocre to low details be placed in a different part of the main web page--it would make the web site look much more professional in it's view and accessibility of pertinent content. I believe that is how the AnandTech started..with in depth reviews and only latter it became cluttered with articles about headphones right next to the in depth reviews of CPU inner workings. I do like the news being located on the side which brings me to another point.
I think it is time for the AnandTech to widen the layout of their web page on the left side. I use 1900x1200 Dell Ultrasharp monitor and there is about 7-8 inches of space being unused and I do like to view web pages maximized. I realize that some people still use 14 inch CRT monitors but those days are coming to an end. We must get on with the progress or be left behind in the prehistoric world of screenozaurus websitos outdatiumus.
I do realize that the Daily Tech is left wing in it's theology and technology is supposed to be neutral to such concepts so sincerely hope that the writers of DailyTech would try to restrain themselves and present it's readers with more of a cool headed news.
On the final note I would like to thank Anand for the great job his has done over the years serving community with great in depth articles.
Anti-virus reviews would be neet because impartial information on those is not widely available or condensed by neutral interests. (I know about VB and West coast labs but to get the full review you need to 1- pay, 2- be pretty well informed to start with. Also, I think they have AV manufacturers funding and on their boards... but I need to check on that info)
Also, there are lots of fake/useless/unworthy/falsely acclaimed so called security, anti-whatever, or cleaners out there that someone neutral should look into.
Maybe when I'm retired I'll go into reviews, but I'll probably try to start my own site writing reviews that nobody will read about products that nobody wants to use. I think it will be more fun that way.
I would very much like to join the writing team, and will be sending in my application shortly, when i've had time to translate the reading material i'd like to send in.
too bad my english bad. Joining in anandtech team will be awesome. i usually write ariticle for newspaper and forums, ill happy to help if sometime in the future anandtech want to make article in other language (Indonesia)
goodluck to those that will become part of anand team :) this site give good read, even non-english native readers also come here for reading the articles.
Anand, what this site needs is not "more writers". What it needs is less DailyTech. DT has become to tech news what the National Enquirer is to mainstream journalism. Your attention is much better spent cleaning up that cesspit and holding its "journalists" (ha!) to standards that include fact-checking, knowing the difference between editorial and reporting, and not deliberately distorting headlines to generate sensationalist outrage (i.e. lying).
You haven't been paying attention to what's going on there. You should. There have been periods when I've stopped reading AT for months at a time, just because of the distortions your writers engage in to push their agendas and the welcoming environment DT gives to haters. Yes, yes, DT and AT are supposedly different sites, but they are so tightly integrated that you can't have one without the other, and the stink rubs off. Claiming that DT is where the ads are but that AT is untainted because ads aren't directly there is like the political national parties committees skirting campaign funding with soft money through polictical action committees. It doesn't bear examination, and ultimately you are responsible for what goes on at DT. You can't claim ignorance.
Are you the boss? Do you have standards for your writers (AT and DT both)? Until there is a modicum of civility in DT, until there are writers with a sense of integrity, and until there are moderators who will boot haters (of any and all types, Apple-haters and MS-haters can burn in the same hell), I think increasing staff size is misspent. Quantity may have a quality all of its own, but not in news.
For the record, DT and AT *are* totally separate sites; I doubt Anand does any oversight on what they post, as that's the job of their editor in chief. I have to admit that I only skim a few of their news posts per week, and when people complain about *my* editing I only have to read one or two DT posts to feel better. LOL
Kris Kubicki split off from AT back in... 2006 I think? And since then, they have been under the watchful eye of people other than AnandTech. And that's part of the reason we're looking to bring AT-style news back in house, because we don't need to cover all the other stuff like the green movement, space exploration, etc. that DT is now doing. We'll focus on computers, and hopefully we can avoid the sensationalist stuff and focus on what's important.
Also, I believe DT news gets posted at more than just AnandTech... that was the original intent, but whether that is happening or not I can't say. There are plenty of people who just read (and flame) on DT and don't bother with AT, so they can stand on their own two feet these days.
Maybe you should consider a politics position if you add more news.
The increasingly political slant has made it less pleasurable to read otherwise excellent tech news and reviews.
A section on politics might bring your insightful analysis to the largely reactionary and uninformed knee-jerk analyses that the site has been suffering from in the last six months.
There are those of us who research and write on politics for a living, and your current staff's lack of political education makes it very difficult to read some of the articles of late.
I once read about installing windows on a hacked hand-made device of USB pen drives (kind of software RAID0).
It was crazy, but had his benefits over hard disks, (today can't compete against even the cheaper SSD), and the article was amazing, entertaining and invited to dream. Even if it reached the conclusion that HDD had advantages that cannot be forgotten.
I wish to read about that kind of experiments. Even if it makes nonsense or have some fundamental flaw, it is interesting on itself, and seeds investigation and development.
Some thing which I want to experiment (but can't do on my PC) is to RAID a SSD to an HDD partition.
It should result on added large files performance, and random 4 Kb should be far worse than SSD alone, but better than HDD.
In some scenarios, it should make sense. Also a JBOD hybrid RAID probably makes sense.
So, I are asking for more experimental/frontier articles, instead of just hardware reviews, which are the core of Anandtech.
i would love to write some reviews for the spanish comunity that i know come here for some good advice in what to choose and learn about the new tech. Let me know if you are interested Anand! it would be fresh idea and could open more user DB, and somthing that other popular web pages dont offer.
I wrote an article for Anandtech a couple of days ago called " The GPU performance Analysis". I hope you like it guys. Its not very scientific but it has soul, spirit and Passion. :).
I normally write independent articles but in spanish for a publication that is read in Argentina and Mexico.
I sent in my writing sample about a week or so ago. I know you probably are inundated with mails and you mentioned in the instructions that you couldn't reply to everyone but I was wondering if someone could confirm that you received my submission.
it was a Samsung Focus Review from Robert Neal
from robert AT cs DOT odu DOT edu
Thanks in advance and perhaps I'll see you at CES.
Forgive the pun, but is there any news on this? The article doesn't mention a deadline or when you'll be contacting people, i'd like to know when to stop dreaming at least :p
I second that, could you please inform us whether the whole process is still active? I sent an article on January the 7th from my account g.theos@gmail.com and since there is no deadline, I do not know whether you have received it/read it, even if it is eligible for the competition...
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ImSpartacus - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I would love to write for Anandtech. Alas, I am not a writer.Anand, please pick a wonderful writer so I can continue to lose sleep reading amazing AT articles!
<3
thebest11778 - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
This is my dream job as well. I'll have to review my past reviews I've done just for fun, and see if any could stack up... hmmm... sure hope so.Perisphetic - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I just wish some writer here would use the phrase "tantalizingly titillating", that would be awesome.Like: "This job is tantalizingly titillating".
ProDigit - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
idiot!Rplaurie - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I haven't seen a camera review from anandtech in a long time, I'm certainly not qualified to write any, but found great value in previous reviews/guides, and would like to see them return.slagar - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I second this. I'd love to read AT's expertise in this area.I hope you find the right people for the job Anand. Love the site :)
radium69 - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
The more the merrier, I really enjoy reading articles here @ anandtech.Would love to see some camera reviewing and everything else. Aslong as it's about tech.
My writing skills are horrible so this won't apply for me.
But I hope you guys keep up the good work! I'm afraid checking this site has become an addiction :)
Cheers from The Netherlands!
ksherman - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I'd love to write for AT! But I don't have any pertinent writing samples yet :-/ (more of a political writer and photographer these days!)magreen - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I remember when I found AnandTech and was attracted here by the high quality writing and quality content that were obviously head and shoulders above anything out on the web--they made THG look about as well informed as the sales staff at Circuit City. (Not that adding me as a reader improved the average quality of the readership any... :)It's only thanks to RSS that I don't waste all my time constantly checking for new AT articles. Thanks Anand! And please keep up the high standards and high quality as you add new writers!
aside: Anand, there's been talk in the forums here of problems with Sandforce SSDs, with BSODs and inability to resume from sleep. Can you clue us in with your usual insightfulness? Thanks!
icrf - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I thought Sandforce BSOD/sleep issues were old news. I read about them before I bought mine a couple months ago, and experienced the problems. I just decided not to sleep my machine anymore. Full-off or full-on. A firmware update may eventually fix it, but I'm not too worried.chrone - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
is it possible to become one if one lives in Indonesia?i like to experience hardware benchmarking with ubuntu linux since its free :D
michaelheath - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I'm glad that you are willing to cast your net into the community in hopes of reaping new talent. I have never written an article for the tech community, but it would be fun to see if I am up to the task. The critical feedback alone would be worth the effort.One category I don't see up there is desktop computer cases. While I know it's difficult to standardize on a single test platform, I find that there are relatively few review sites posting articles on new computer cases these days in any reliable fashion (of the 20 websites I visit daily, bit-tech.net is the only group that does this with any regularity).
Possibly off-topic: A regular problem in general that I see, not just with AnandTech, is the steady decline in use of proper grammar. I know the job of an editor to check for content and consistency, and I understand a writer has to utilize style to keep readers interested, but would it kill anyone to read through an article to check for grammar and typos?
Doctor3D - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I would love to write memory articles for AnandTech. I have not written a lot of reviews or articles but I have written some so this might be enjoyable. I will have to submit a sample.fabarati - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Would you guys accept submissions from Europe?marsbound2024 - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
It says in the article: "If you're interested in writing for AnandTech, simply email your name, location (you can write from anywhere) and a writing sample to callforwriters AT anandtech DOT com. "fabarati - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Never mind, I just saw that you do. I should've read the article a bit more closely.marsbound2024 - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
How broad do you guys want to cover on the technology spectrum for news? I know you want to stay closely related to computer systems, but I didn't know if you had other interests as well (i.e.: space exploration). While space exploration and the technologies behind it is my forte, I am also interested in covering other topics as well.nbcbubba - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
My first post here.Thanks for the great articles you folks write. I trust the content I find here more than any other tech site I currently read and that is soley because of the depth of knowledge, fairness and quality writing I find here time and time again.
For you prospective writers:
-Ignore sensationalism. Your job is to know your topic and write unbiased reports. Let us, the reader, hash out how we feel and argue in these forums.
-Write at a level that demonstrates your depth of knowledge but still allows the less knowledgeable to understand what you are reviewing.
-Have fun! We don't want to sleep through articles; give us quality content and spice it with a bit of fun. The current group does great at this.
Please continue to bring us the best tech reviews on the web.
NCM - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
With great respect Anand, while the technical content here is almost uniformly excellent, the quality of the writing itself is...let's say "quite variable." Since sloppy writing impedes getting information across to your readers, what you could really use is a decent copy editor. (And no, I'm not looking for the job!)Dustin Sklavos - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Respectfully, I've written for a few sites and Jarred is simply the best and easiest editor I've ever had the pleasure of working for. I'd personally stack this site's quality and reputation against any of the other big shots, and there are definitely much, much worse tech sites out there.Sunrise089 - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
I think Jared should be fired from his editing responsibilities tomorrow. Not because he's a bad editor (I'm sure he's excellent) but rather because I think his competitive advantage lies in writing articles. Jared's overclocking and buyers guide articles are sorely missed.NCM - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
Dustin writes: "Respectfully, I've written for a few sites and Jarred is simply the best and easiest editor I've ever had the pleasure of working for."I didn't think that AT had an editor, which probably says it all. Writers don't need the easiest editor, they need the most effective one.
One obvious and recent example would be the headline of your otherwise perfectly respectable article: "HP Envy 17: HP's MacBook Pro Killer?"
Please, not another "XYZ Killer" comment. That's simply technical and journalistic laziness, and unworthy of AT's standing in the online technical community. An effective editor would never have let that pass, or never have applied that headline (whichever was the case).
And:
"...there are definitely much, much worse tech sites out there."
Is that the standard to live up to?
Sebec - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
Agreed.Snotling - Monday, December 20, 2010 - link
I so totally second that.Also, since I'm commenting, I want to mention the computer case evaluations and the much too little attention that mATX motherboard reviews get.
I mean yeah, we all like to compensate for our sexual shortcomings with huge cases and full ATX motherboards but the truth is... nowadays almost nobody needs 5 expansion slots (except for SLI or CF) since everything except the TV tuner is integrated.
Someone need to get the message to manufacturers about making good quality cases for mATX form factor and also performance cases that don't look like a star-ship... we may all be enthusiasts but we're not all 40 year old virgins living in our mother's basement.
I've seen great mATX boards out there with SLI capabilities that are not reviewed anywhere and I have yet to find a case that's neither horizontal or huge or without neons, exposed insides or alien looking paint jobs.
For people like me who like to look serious and secretly kick ass, please find us a voice and help us chose the right hardware for the job.
Thank you.
Spazweasel - Saturday, December 18, 2010 - link
It's the job of an editor to show tough love, not warm fuzzies.Seriously, the complaints about misleading and sensationalist headlines are valid. The complaints about a lack of copy-editing for grammatical and spelling errors are valid. The complaints about stories being put up with mislabeled (or missing) graphs and inserts are valid. Head-in-the-sand won't make those problems go away; neither will a group-hug.
The editor is there to make the writer LOOK good, not FEEL good.
And as for worse tech sites... who cares? That doesn't justify sloppiness. AT is claiming to be the best. Fine.. back it up with results. You're being held to a journalistic standard, not a blog standard.
JarredWalton - Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - link
I used to do nearly all of the final editing/posting of articles, but frankly that was too much for any one person. So these days, I edit/rewrite the PSU articles from Martin, I usually read through all of Johan's articles and make minor edits before they go up, and I read Dustin's stuff and any other notebook review before they go live. If I see a glaring error in an article from someone else, I'll also go and fix that, but otherwise I don't edit every article. Most of the time, I don't really make major changes unless something is really wrong; I let the writers have their own style and voice, and people get to know a personality slightly more that way. Or that's my theory.One of the things the readers don't generally realize is that many articles are in the finishing steps when NDA expires, so there's not a whole lot of time to carefully review and edit each article. Imagine one of the GPU articles that are 5000+ words getting wrapped up at midnight, and then along comes an editor and says, "no, we can't post this because there are some grammar errors, the headline needs work, and...." And that's assuming the copy editor is even awake when a review is ready to post.
In the grand scheme of things, a headline that you may not like on occasion (i.e. HP Envy 17: a MacBook Pro Killer?) is a drop in the bucket. It looks like a MacBook in styling, and that's what many people were saying when it originally launched. Most readers just went along and read the article (or not) without complaining, but the Apple crowd in particular loves to jump on anything that so much as suggests someone can compete with Jobs and his crew. And sometimes, it's just fun to ruffle their feathers a bit. ;-)
NCM - Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - link
JarredWalton writes:"In the grand scheme of things, a headline that you may not like on occasion (i.e. HP Envy 17: a MacBook Pro Killer?) is a drop in the bucket... but the Apple crowd in particular loves to jump on anything that so much as suggests someone can compete with Jobs and his crew."
Sorry, but you seem to be avoiding the real point, one I thought would be made evident by my not using the company names. It's not about HP or Apple or Dell or anyone else.
It's about lazy writing and trite metaphors. Write like the National Enquirer and that's the level of respect you earn. As simple as that.
(You do, however, have my full sympathy regarding exigent deadlines.)
prime2515103 - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
"1) A sample of a product review you've written. This can be any product in the categories mentioned below,..."Actually the categories were mentioned above. Need a proof reader? heh j/k...
FITCamaro - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
But I'd be happy to proof read your articles and spell check them. Since your current writers seem incapable or unwilling to do so.dustcrusher - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Is it safe to assume that your choice of sentence structure is a sly reference to the less-than-stellar grammar that afflicts AT articles? My Sarcas-O-Meter is on the fritz.If AT wants a copy editor, I don't know if I'd be a good fit. If you guys want a style snob that will nitpick the living tar out of every article until it meets a certain standard of quality, I might be able to help ;-)
FITCamaro - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
I didn't claim to be a grammar expert. I just get tired of seeing basic words spelled incorrectly. And my brain exploding as I try to read a sentence that looks like it came from a 2nd grader.techywacky - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Hi,I would love to write for you, please find the sample articles to the given mails. The mail was sent via thetechnowriter@gmail.com.
Thanks
Pratheek - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
I would like to have an editor who looks for all reviews/news posting on anandtech before going to public...Murst - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Does your push into blogging/news have any effect on the DailyTech links you guys provide? I can't remember exactly how it was a few years ago, but I seem to remember Anandtech and Dailytech being integrated a lot more... maybe it was the same site? And now it seems that Anandtech wants to compete directly with Dailytech. :) In any case - interesting.Stuka87 - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
What is the time frame for us to submit something? I would like to submit something, but I do not currently have anything on hand to submit. So I would need to write something up.Thanks!
Lapoki - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Whats the pay like?JessusChristDoOTcom - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
It would be nice to see 'backward clickability' of news articles when one is reading them from AnandTech web site. I remember the days when I would look on the right of the screen of the AnandTech web site for news snippets and if I was interested in reading more of a particular news I would click on the link and read it and consequently press "Backspace" (or press left on the scroll wheel of a mouse button) button to get back to AnandTech from DailyTech but for two or so years now I have been clicking on each interesting news article at DailyTech and being burdened with clicking "x" at the top of the web page tab in order to close it so I could return to the AnandTech in order to click on the next news article in order to close the new tab again. The layout of the DailyTech and their fonts desire better and is hard on the eyes--to me that web site is worse than AnandTech and I do miss the 'good ol' days' of the two web site having been integrated together as a smooth working mechanism. I am glad that the AnandTech and the DailyTech web sites would be organized together again and hope for a smoother operation thereof.On the side note I would like to see main big articles with lots of in depth details of the inner workings of something posted in a separate box of the web page while 'lesser' articles with mediocre to low details be placed in a different part of the main web page--it would make the web site look much more professional in it's view and accessibility of pertinent content. I believe that is how the AnandTech started..with in depth reviews and only latter it became cluttered with articles about headphones right next to the in depth reviews of CPU inner workings. I do like the news being located on the side which brings me to another point.
I think it is time for the AnandTech to widen the layout of their web page on the left side. I use 1900x1200 Dell Ultrasharp monitor and there is about 7-8 inches of space being unused and I do like to view web pages maximized. I realize that some people still use 14 inch CRT monitors but those days are coming to an end. We must get on with the progress or be left behind in the prehistoric world of screenozaurus websitos outdatiumus.
I do realize that the Daily Tech is left wing in it's theology and technology is supposed to be neutral to such concepts so sincerely hope that the writers of DailyTech would try to restrain themselves and present it's readers with more of a cool headed news.
On the final note I would like to thank Anand for the great job his has done over the years serving community with great in depth articles.
iwod - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link
Would you consider Software reviews?Or Other small things like Media Player Comparison? or Phone Accessorizes... etc
Sebec - Saturday, December 18, 2010 - link
I think software reviews would go against Anandtech's slogan. "Your source for hardware analysis and news."Snotling - Monday, December 20, 2010 - link
Well, phone accessories is hardware.Anti-virus reviews would be neet because impartial information on those is not widely available or condensed by neutral interests. (I know about VB and West coast labs but to get the full review you need to 1- pay, 2- be pretty well informed to start with. Also, I think they have AV manufacturers funding and on their boards... but I need to check on that info)
Also, there are lots of fake/useless/unworthy/falsely acclaimed so called security, anti-whatever, or cleaners out there that someone neutral should look into.
but anti-virus is not hardware...
michael.gulde - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
Or its been really cool to read the articles..here
Michael G
Http://www.spacesbox.com
and my twitter
twitter.com/Spaceacer_mjg
ET - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
Maybe when I'm retired I'll go into reviews, but I'll probably try to start my own site writing reviews that nobody will read about products that nobody wants to use. I think it will be more fun that way.trae32566 - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
Man I'd love to write the GPU articles....hopefully I'd get to test some sweet productsProDigit - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
"Want to Write for AnandTech?"No!
Xtrafresh - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
Wow guys, what's with all the negativity?I would very much like to join the writing team, and will be sending in my application shortly, when i've had time to translate the reading material i'd like to send in.
orangpelupa - Friday, December 17, 2010 - link
too bad my english bad. Joining in anandtech team will be awesome.i usually write ariticle for newspaper and forums,
ill happy to help if sometime in the future anandtech want to make article in other language (Indonesia)
goodluck to those that will become part of anand team :)
this site give good read, even non-english native readers also come here for reading the articles.
OS - Saturday, December 18, 2010 - link
is this compensated? if so how does it workSpazweasel - Saturday, December 18, 2010 - link
Anand, what this site needs is not "more writers". What it needs is less DailyTech. DT has become to tech news what the National Enquirer is to mainstream journalism. Your attention is much better spent cleaning up that cesspit and holding its "journalists" (ha!) to standards that include fact-checking, knowing the difference between editorial and reporting, and not deliberately distorting headlines to generate sensationalist outrage (i.e. lying).You haven't been paying attention to what's going on there. You should. There have been periods when I've stopped reading AT for months at a time, just because of the distortions your writers engage in to push their agendas and the welcoming environment DT gives to haters. Yes, yes, DT and AT are supposedly different sites, but they are so tightly integrated that you can't have one without the other, and the stink rubs off. Claiming that DT is where the ads are but that AT is untainted because ads aren't directly there is like the political national parties committees skirting campaign funding with soft money through polictical action committees. It doesn't bear examination, and ultimately you are responsible for what goes on at DT. You can't claim ignorance.
Are you the boss? Do you have standards for your writers (AT and DT both)? Until there is a modicum of civility in DT, until there are writers with a sense of integrity, and until there are moderators who will boot haters (of any and all types, Apple-haters and MS-haters can burn in the same hell), I think increasing staff size is misspent. Quantity may have a quality all of its own, but not in news.
Thank you.
JarredWalton - Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - link
For the record, DT and AT *are* totally separate sites; I doubt Anand does any oversight on what they post, as that's the job of their editor in chief. I have to admit that I only skim a few of their news posts per week, and when people complain about *my* editing I only have to read one or two DT posts to feel better. LOLKris Kubicki split off from AT back in... 2006 I think? And since then, they have been under the watchful eye of people other than AnandTech. And that's part of the reason we're looking to bring AT-style news back in house, because we don't need to cover all the other stuff like the green movement, space exploration, etc. that DT is now doing. We'll focus on computers, and hopefully we can avoid the sensationalist stuff and focus on what's important.
Also, I believe DT news gets posted at more than just AnandTech... that was the original intent, but whether that is happening or not I can't say. There are plenty of people who just read (and flame) on DT and don't bother with AT, so they can stand on their own two feet these days.
dreddly - Saturday, December 18, 2010 - link
Maybe you should consider a politics position if you add more news.The increasingly political slant has made it less pleasurable to read otherwise excellent tech news and reviews.
A section on politics might bring your insightful analysis to the largely reactionary and uninformed knee-jerk analyses that the site has been suffering from in the last six months.
There are those of us who research and write on politics for a living, and your current staff's lack of political education makes it very difficult to read some of the articles of late.
Just a thought.
marraco - Sunday, December 19, 2010 - link
I once read about installing windows on a hacked hand-made device of USB pen drives (kind of software RAID0).It was crazy, but had his benefits over hard disks, (today can't compete against even the cheaper SSD), and the article was amazing, entertaining and invited to dream. Even if it reached the conclusion that HDD had advantages that cannot be forgotten.
I wish to read about that kind of experiments. Even if it makes nonsense or have some fundamental flaw, it is interesting on itself, and seeds investigation and development.
Some thing which I want to experiment (but can't do on my PC) is to RAID a SSD to an HDD partition.
It should result on added large files performance, and random 4 Kb should be far worse than SSD alone, but better than HDD.
In some scenarios, it should make sense. Also a JBOD hybrid RAID probably makes sense.
So, I are asking for more experimental/frontier articles, instead of just hardware reviews, which are the core of Anandtech.
xodius80 - Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - link
i would love to write some reviews for the spanish comunity that i know come here for some good advice in what to choose and learn about the new tech. Let me know if you are interested Anand! it would be fresh idea and could open more user DB, and somthing that other popular web pages dont offer.CrazyGPU - Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - link
I wrote an article for Anandtech a couple of days ago called " The GPU performance Analysis". I hope you like it guys. Its not very scientific but it has soul, spirit and Passion. :).I normally write independent articles but in spanish for a publication that is read in Argentina and Mexico.
TareX - Thursday, December 23, 2010 - link
This question is probably a bullet in the head, but for the life of me I can't seem to find the email address I'm supposed to contact....Aircraft123 - Friday, December 24, 2010 - link
I sent in my writing sample about a week or so ago. I know you probably are inundated with mails and you mentioned in the instructions that you couldn't reply to everyone but I was wondering if someone could confirm that you received my submission.it was a Samsung Focus Review from Robert Neal
from robert AT cs DOT odu DOT edu
Thanks in advance and perhaps I'll see you at CES.
Robert
Xtrafresh - Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - link
Forgive the pun, but is there any news on this? The article doesn't mention a deadline or when you'll be contacting people, i'd like to know when to stop dreaming at least :pStriderGT - Monday, January 10, 2011 - link
I second that, could you please inform us whether the whole process is still active? I sent an article on January the 7th from my account g.theos@gmail.com and since there is no deadline, I do not know whether you have received it/read it, even if it is eligible for the competition...