1. Please find the parts of this preview that makes it look like a commercial. Don't say "all of it", but please seriously try.
"This case is not for everyone - NordicHardware.com" will probably _not_ look good on Zalman's awards-site.
You have absolutely no reason to call this a commercial any more than any other preview ever written.
Sure it contains a lot of nice pictures, you don't like them? Disable them in your browser then.
2. You are never forced to read previews, you do so to find out more about a certain technology or product. Tell me what you did _not_ find out in this preview, except for the performance, which we for previously mentioned reasons _can't_ write about. If there is anything you want to find out, I'll ask Martin of it and he'll probably add it, right?
You wonder whether the case is quiet? This is a prototype of a case with the HDD as only moving part. The HDD is mounted using a lot of rubber, coupled with a massive metal design. Also, HDDs of today are very quiet. Now if you can't draw conclusions from that, wait for the full review.
These lines are from the first page: "This is a prototype of the case, hence we are not allowed to publish any benchmarking results with this system. A review of the final version will be done later on, but until then you'll have to settle with this preview."
If you read that, then why complain at all?
3. My post demonstrated that you are 5 whiners and that 127,000 other people thought that this was interesting enough to read more about. Nothing else. Some love new technology, and a small minority likes to complain on other peoples' reports on it.
If you want to read better articles, then help improving them by thinking of ways to do so. If you just feel like whining and can't come up with any positive or helpful feedback, then why do you even try to call yourselves superior? If you can't do it better, then you aren't better, only more prone to whining.
I wouldn't call other sites bad if that was what I was trying to achieve with my own.
Perhaps credibility comes from complaining on others, or perhaps it comes from providing readers with what they want: helpful information. To do so, there is a road to walk, no one is perfect when they are new.
4. Please tell me how you want previews to be written, and by previews I don't mean reviews, because then no one would ever write any previews. Obviously, this preview didn't fulfil your needs, so you must be missing something.
5. Perhaps I read this preview in a different way, but the conclusions I draw from it are these: It is quiet, it will cool you computer at _least_ enough for it to work, it is heavy, it is large, it is expensive, and Martin likes it. Do I think he will use a lot of CAPS LOCK in the full review? Probably not. Do I think he will still like it? Probably. However, I can't help to think that I can draw my own conclusions. At that price, I won't ever buy it unless I get very rich.
You realize that there are expensive, heavy and large things that still are good? Look at your car for example, no one forbid you to say it's good or to like it just because everybody else might find it too large, too expensive and too heavy.
I think I can extrapolate the results before we even post them: This case is nice, but you may be too weak to carry it, have too little room for it, and not enough money to buy it. Do you want to buy it? Then that is a question of how you spend your money.
6. Temp results are important. If you expect great results, Zalman explain in the manual that overclocking might not be so wise without using a fan to cool the case. That should give you a hint, wait for the review.
I guess people will be more interested in dB though, if they want to overclock and cool their computer, they will probably invest their money in a Vaporchill or the likes.
If you feel that your own temp-tests are more accurate, go ahead and test the case yourself. Please share the results with us.
7. You are not Mozart. You are the critics complaining on Britney. That is so because you bring absolutely nothing to the table. You did not produce anything on your own to compete with.
Britney tries to give her listeners what they want. She "makes" popular music. Unless you can make music that's better than Britney's, I suggest you try to help Britney so that you can enjoy her music, try to perform better than Britney, or perhaps just refrain from commenting.
8. Our forums have not yet become popular, we are rather new as you know, and there are quite a lot of other forums to compete with. Thank you for linking to them though.
9. This is irrelevant, but none the less:
www.alexa.com, the company that measures how popular a site is by page views and visits, ranks NordicHardware.com on the 12,741th place in the world, and procooling.com on the 71,300th. Perhaps that is correct, perhaps it isn't, doesn't matter to me. Anyway, NordicHardware.com is just our english version of the site, 8 months old, and still much smaller than our Swedish site ranked 8,186 in the world.
10. Yes pHaestus, that is absolutely correct, that is the main reason for being a reviewer.
Just in case anyone forgot though: This is a preview, and no, you find absolutely no sign of us saying: buy this case. If Martin concludes that in the final review, then may it be so.
However, Martin will have that in mind when reviewing the case and no, if you read any of our reviews, you'll see that we do not suck up to mfgrs and yes, we do always try to be honest and think of our readers as most important.
That is just why all your whine about us not being objective makes me so irritated.