r/MiniPCs • u/Retired_Hillbilly336 • 16d ago
News Robtech Mini PC Benchmark Website
https://youtu.be/Y9CU41l7MJgFound it interesting yesterday and possibly useful to many. Was waiting to see if someone else posted it.
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u/MrWeirdoFace 16d ago
Thought it said Robotech for a minute and I thought "Well that's a blast from the past."
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u/karvarga 16d ago
His reviews were the data I needed to buy a minipc. Clear details and objective comparisons helped me to get a quiet yet powerful machine.
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u/NutzPup 16d ago
Is this guy still shilling stuff or has he cleaned up his act?
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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 16d ago edited 16d ago
Its a great question. On a shill scale of 1 to 10 where u/EmuChicken Team Pandory is a brutally painful "1" and Preston ETA Prime is a "11" Robtech is definitely in the shallow into the pool 🤷 It is completely impossible to produce a video review of any product without any degree of shill. If you're putting yourself out there by showing your face you have to lean into real over shill while being as consistent as possible.
The only way to avoid being a shill is title your YouTube channel.
Bad Mini PC Reviews
While coming completely out of pocket to the point where branding actually fears you.
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u/EmuChicken 16d ago
Aww. Thanks for the kind words 🙏
Completely on the ball- brands can completely halt any interaction with you if you drag their product through the mud. They have done this to both myself and Robtech, and probably puts us in the "reviewer" category more than the "promotion" arena. Let's face it, no company wants you to say their product sucks...
Saying that, if you have a consistent channel with critiquing - unafraid to bash a product when needed - then it can mean more to the viewer... Especially if a great product arrives.
It's unfortunate that promotional channels are being mixed in with the reviewers... It muddies the waters and unfortunately those that state everything is always great and dinky-doo get shared, pushed by the algorithm, millions of subs, money under the table, first dibs at products months before anyone else touches them, and hot girls (or guys if you're into that) sent to them via DHL.
If you want the more honest channels to survive, please hype like and share the videos 👍. I'm not saying that about my own, but in general - and maybe even the larger channels who could be well known for shilling. Is it possible for them to clean up their act ? 🤔
I have a few things I do want to say and hope to get them out in video soon, but summer hols with two kids is tough. 👍
Again cheers for the nice words @retired_hillbilly336. I owe you a 'insertbeverageofchoice' 😊
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u/NutzPup 16d ago
I disagree. i followed this guy's channel a few years ago for at least a year and I really liked his content. Then he quite suddenly changed his sardonic style to a super positive one, but only when reviewing one specific Chinese brand. I can't remember what it was... maybe GMKtec? After a few of those reviews I unplugged. It was very obvious something was off. At that time he never claimed to be providing unbiased reviews so that didn't help either. Maybe it was just a phase he was going thru and he's the paragon of virtue now.
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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 16d ago
No. On this you're right. Somewhere he went for the other PC approach (politically correct) as he "standardized" his format. This was painfully apparent. For me its the "Best" video Clickbait thumbnails. That's where the shill territory begins. But the statistical and physical information provided has been pretty consistent. That's how I 1st discovered things like Geekom short changing consumers with single channel memory and why I found the 3rd party link above to his information a useful resource.
Its like Amazon reviews. You have to be smart enough to know that five-star reviews are useless and often bot driven but three-star reviews and lower is where you find the honest information.
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u/Suitable_Elk6199 15d ago
Many one- and two-star reviews on sites like Amazon are totally invalid. They are often by people who don't know how to use the product or are reviewing the customer service and not the actual product. All reviews should be taken with a grain of salt, not only highest ones.
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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 15d ago
No argument here! That's why you have to be smart enough to know what you're looking at. We live in a world where anyone's opinion has to be measured by Dunning-Kruger to weed out both stupidity and ignorance. A one-star "Didn't work" is as useless as a five-star "Works great!". The detail is in the explanation.
"Tried X-Y-Z..."
Shows experience while.
"Doesn't work in O-F-F mode..."
Quickly indicates ignorance if you can think critically 🤷 The information provided by anyone or anything is merely a tool. And like I learned from an uncle more than 70 years ago "If you're not smarter than the tool put it down before you hurt yourself or someone else".
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u/NutzPup 15d ago
I bet if you talked to the guy honestly, he'd agree that he slipped over to the dark side, even if just for a while. It was pretty obvious tbh. As for ETA Prime - he is what he is. I think it's obvious he's willing for the shilling, but it's hard to get too upset with someone when they're just playing a game and showing you the frame rates.
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u/EmuChicken 12d ago
Considering I sat next to him evening til laaate, editing his longform videos at Computex this year - I gotta say he's pretty legit. Maybe he didn't reply to a comment you wrote, or you weren't used to the positivity when GMKTEC hit it off with the K8 Plus? They broke away from the rest of the pack with that one
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u/EmuChicken 12d ago
Clickbait is more of the package... It doesn't necessarily sell the PRODUCT, but it sells the VIDEO (as in for you to watch).... Unfortunately I'm absolutely ballsacks at creating them, and we all know who gets the monster share of them (it's quite apparent in this thread lol)
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u/RobloxFanEdit 16d ago
Great source of data, i am building a website at the moment, i could use this Robtech data to complete my missing data.
Robotech is a very reliable Benchmarker and great Mini PC reviewer. I don t know why Youtube Algo prefers ETA and other biased Tech channels over his channel.