****sigh**** Just catching up on this thread.

Can you guys please stop generalizing? I'm sooooo tired of people saying test results from a certain region are no good / biased - and that individual testers are biased, or are shilling for a given vendor. Does it happen - yeah, maybe it does. Do we know conclusively when it does? I don't think so.

As individuals, we have the opportunity to read reviews from a number of different testers - and make our buying decisions based on those reviews - IF we trust them. If we don't trust a particular reviewer, then don't read their reviews. If you want to refute an individual tester's results - present facts to back up your arguments, and stay away from personal/regional attacks. This just seems like common sense to give your arguments more credibility.

I swear, I don't know why people are still testing, because they get abuse no matter what they post. I do, however, appreciate and welcome test results from all parts of the world. Unfortunately, I think we've lost the contributions of some of the testers for one reason or another.

(Just my aggravated 2 cents worth ...)