Dustin,
Thank you for your comment. We at Hardware Pub strive to become a leading computer hardware review website.
To answer your questions:
-Yes. The majority of our reviews are by teenagers. I am the eldest at 18 years of age. I appreciate that you brought up the point of our reviews containing grammatical errors. Although I am Senior Hardware Editor, I am preoccupied with writing my own reviews and do not have time to proof read my colleagues' work. We will go through all our reviews to conform and spell check them.
-With regards to our reviews, we do have ones that focus on "quality" components. Some include the AMD Athlon XP 1800+ review just posted tonight, ATI Radeon 8500 (which proved very popular), EPoX 8KHAL and MSI K7T266 Pro2 KT266A motherboards, and many more video card and motherboard ones. However, we do not want to focus exclusively on such components. Thus, other reviews on memory, cases, and miscellaneous components add variety to our reviews. Furthermore, we are strengthening relationships with several online retailers and manufacturers, such as EPoX, ATi, and Monarch Computers, to provide us the latest hardware to review.
-I would like to point out that not everyone works for free hardware. For example, I work because I have a passion for computers promoting products I like. The majority of reviews are on my own hardware. I upgrade like every month. In addition, with my recent EPoX 8KHAL review, with which we were the second website to publish such a review, I did not keep the motherboard and returned it to EPoX. Also, one can't rely entirely on major sites like Anandtech to keep them updated on the computer world. Do they have an EPoX 8KHAL review? Every site is different. And please do not say we're not hard working.
-With regards to management, I would like to say that Keefe and David are doing an incredible job at managing this site. We are much better now than we were a month ago. Our site is much cleaner. And, we have grown twice as big this month alone. Moreover, please keep in mind we are high school and college students as well.
-With regards to our work, I can understand that everyone has their own writing style. As an editor myself, with many years of high school English behind my back, I believe I am writing well. Please read my AMD Athlon XP 1800+ and Radeon 8500 reviews and please comment on my writing style. If I am doing something bad, I want to fix or improve it.
-With regards to other webmasters out there. They're site is they're site. Hardware Pub is our site. We focus on our site alone. Personally, I don't care if Anandtech or whoever is losing money. As of now, we are not running this website to make money. Rather, everyone donates and contributes to keep this website afloat. We are just a bunch of hardware enthusiasts that want to express ourselves and become the best site out there. Based on your experience, we would be more than grateful if you would share some tips for website success ;-) .
I believe this answers all your questions and comments.
Thank you for posting.
Edward Chang
Senior Hardware Editor / Marketing Manager
Big_E@hardwarepub.com

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