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Originally Posted by cadaveca
He could have done a preview, and said whatever he wanted...if he had hardware. He's whining because to get the free hardware, he had to do a few things.
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I'd probably see it as Scott wanting unfettered freedom to write the review in any way he see's fit. Personally I see it as more of an idealized concept-but it's his site, and I have no issues with the stance. IF you couldn't purchase a Trinity APU or FM2 board prior to all the information being out in the wild then the issue would be moot. The fact that you can pre-order both makes it somewhat of a grey area- and remember AMD had prior form with this type of manipulation with hyping Bulldozer and engaging in some very dubious guerrilla marketing practices in order to shift 990FX/X boards in the months prior to the CPU dropping.
Again, personally, I don't have any qualms about publishing the data. It would however, in the interest of full disclosure, present a more complete picture when the rationale for the reviews content-or lack of, is included. You can call these Trinity articles that appear all over the tech news previews to your hearts content, but they are for all intents and purposes reviews, albeit only the first installment. Anything else is pure semantics.
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Originally Posted by cadaveca
I didn't need AMD's hardware.
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Really. I could have sworn you said you were in need of A85 board to fully test the APU
