Okay, this is Martin from Nordichardware. I am the one that wrote the preview, and I must say that I am a bit upset about what I have read.
I got a call from a distributor in sweden with good contact with Zalman, and they asked if I was interested in writing a review of it.
I immidiatly said yes, and the day that I got it I got a call saying that I was not allowed to make any performance tests because it was only a prototype. I had two choices, either to skip the preview completely or to write it and skip any performance data.
Since I though that many people would be interested in reading my opinions and view some pictures of it, I wrote a large preview where I tried to write everything that I could about the case.
It was obviously a good choise because many people where happy with it and loved reading it.
The only thing that I was not allowed to do was to test the performance, but that does not make it an advertisement. The product IS very good, that should not stop me from posting the preview should it?
I wrote just about every negative aspect that I could think of in that review, the weight, the price, the usage of different size screws, the restriction of natural airflow and so on.
Zalman has thought about nearly everything in this case, so there was not much negative to write about it. Does that make me a bad previewer? Should I concentrate on writing reviews/previews on bad products?
I did not get to keep the case, I did not recieve any money or other priveligies when writing this review and we have no ads/cooperations with Zalman at the moment so how can this review be written in any other purpouse than to share information with the hardware community out there?
And pHaestus, you make it sound as if Zalman controlled our every word. We got one instruction: Do not publice any performance data until the final product is done. Now you may say what you think about Zalmans decision to do that, but do not look down at us because we want to share information with the community.
An advertisement would not contain any bad aspects of the case, if it looked a bit like an ad it could have been because the case actually is a good product?
I'm actually kind of sad about all this, I set aside every project that I had going for five days (girlfriend, modding, other reviews, school) which made my life a bit tougher the days after since I had to work that up, I didn't get to see my girlfriend that week and I get complaints because I took good pictures and reviewed an interesting product, and you write these comments without any hard facts to look down on it?
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