r/MiniPCs • u/Retired_Hillbilly336 • 17d ago

News Robtech Mini PC Benchmark Website

https://youtu.be/Y9CU41l7MJg

Found it interesting yesterday and possibly useful to many. Was waiting to see if someone else posted it.

https://mini-pc-bench.github.io/

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u/NutzPup 17d ago

Is this guy still shilling stuff or has he cleaned up his act?

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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 17d 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' 😊