KazumiZorah Wrote:I'd have to be pretty new to the internet to miss that. Call me cynical but a for-profit company's description of their own product is not exactly a source of accurate, unbiased information
It's literally just a description of what the product is/does. That can't be biased. When they start talking about how the product will benefit you that's when things can start to get biased. But you don't have to read that part or take it to heart. If you want to know what a product does just skim the description. It will state it somewhere among the marketing nonsense. Once you know what it does it's up to you to decide if its intended function would actually be useful for you. Being afraid to read any information about a product from the company that developed it is irrational. If you have critical thinking skills you should be able to sort through what's what pretty quickly and often times the develop/manufacturer is the only company capable of providing certain useful information about the product.
Besides if you were so afraid of that why not just click on one of the other search results like number 2 or 3? Those are from 3rd party sources.
KazumiZorah Wrote:Going down through the description of any hardware, particularly motherboards and half of it is cool-sounding words and one-liners ending in ® or ™, perhaps followed by a hyped utopic description. Oversensationalism tells me that the product described is worth a whole lot more to the people selling it than to the poor sods buying it, and my quote "maybe one of you will set me straight on this" was me being open to the possibility that most of that was actually worth the price tag. At the end it's all paranoia but you'd understand if you didn't know shit about hardware
Ok let me rephrase. Which specific "cool-sounding words and one-liners" are you concerned about? It's very hard for me to answer this question if you don't tell me that since everyone has different features they need/want from their motherboards.
Often times I just figure out what X feature does and then ask myself "would I actually use this?". And yes I can understand the paranoia. Marketing departments and salesmen are the swine of the earth. My two biggest
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