hmm, spin spin spin
this has been true from the very start of hardware reviews, right back to the days of cyrix chips running at weird 83Mhz bus speeds against the 100 of amd k6.
Sad but true - some hardware reviewers are simply puppets to the PR machines of teh big corporations.
DT.
The thing is though… it happens everywhere in life… Quite a lot of business is conducted in the “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” way…