[Pc_Support] The most useless review I've ever seen from AnandTech ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Following Tom's Hardware Guide's comparison of _equivalent_ AMD and
Intel mobile solutions, AnandTech did a comparison.  And boy is it
_utterly_useless_.

Tom's Hardware Guide's earlier review compared a nForce 4xx integrated
GPU (GeForce 61xx) to a Intel i9xx integrated GPU series, with around
equivalently clocked Turion x2 versus Core 2 Duo -- each about the
same price point in the same form-factor.  And while the latter had
better compuational numbers, the former still came in with better 3D
scores while having lower power consumption -- and the main reason I
decided to buy a Turion x2 (despite not having the absolute best
performance when paired with an add-on nVidia video card).

AnandTech didn't even compare apples to oranges, but went far worse.

First off, they took an ATI chipset with integrated GPU in an
ultra-light.  Although they did go for the top-level Turion x2 TL-60
and the lower-end TL-50, they compared it to a *FULL*BLOWN* and bigger
Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz 4MB L2 and, worse yet, a GeForce Go 7700 -- a $250+
mobile video board on its own.  The 3D performance of the Intel/Go
solution _utterly_trashes_ the AMD/ATI integrated.  And you can't even
compare battery longevity because of not only the Go 7700 sucking
juice on the Intel side, but the ultra-light notebooks typically have
a reduced battery size as a result of the form-factor/thinness.  It's
not even a good review con/pro Intel v. AMD -- utterly not even apples
to oranges, but far, far worse.

I won't even bother to post a link to the review.