Charles Jefferies Now Writes for Tom's Hardware

[Sandy Bridge]

I was perusing Tom's Hardware today, and pulled up a notebook review, and noticed that it was written by one of our old friends, Charles Jefferies.  Naturally I was curious, and it turns out it's not the first one he's written for them, but the fourth, the first one written in September.

 

You can view all of his articles for Tom's at https://www.tomshardware.com/author/charles-jefferies .

 

I'm happy to see it, he has always written good reviews, and Tom's is doing a fairly good job lately (RIP AnandTech).  Good for him that he's writing reviews again, and for a site with a large audience.

[Etern4l]

I imagined Charles as a much older person. Must have been the formal style and the occasionally overly heavy-handed moderation.

[Sandy Bridge]

11 minutes ago, Etern4l said:

I imagined Charles as a much older person. Must have been the formal style and the occasionally overly heavy-handed moderation.

Me too!  I think another factor, for me, was his wealth and breadth of knowledge about laptops.  It just seemed like he must have had several decades more experience with technology than I did, back when I was new to the NBR crowd circa 2007.  As it turns out, I'd guess from the picture that he's actually pretty close to my age, and if I'd never heard of him before he started writing for Tom's, I'd guess younger than I am.

[Bullit]

I don't see it that way. Ultrabookreview and Notebookcheck.net are much much better reviewing laptops than Toms. With Toms i would not ever been certain of what is better for me. Irresponsible as most hardware reviewers work he like others seems similar to those that  want to fit every product in just their restricted class. 

[John Ratsey]

I recall that CPJ was still a teenager when he became chief moderator at NBR. This states that he wrote his first review in 2005 in the days when NBR was run by Andrew Baxter who was happy to accept reviews from most people on the basis that multiple reviews by relative amateurs (including me) would provide a better overall understanding than a few highly detailed reviews. While it's possible that CPJ's first reviews were in the amateur category he quickly became recognised for his consistency while each review broadened his overall knowledge. Somehow he also managed to attend school and knowledge.

 

I also agree, however, that Ultrabookreview and Notebookcheck are currently the best places to look for the most comprehensive reviews including what the inside looks like.

[Bullit]

I don't use my "gaming" laptop for gaming. Tom's reviews don't help me at all choosing a system. Unfortunately American media is too formatted, too compartmentalised into "market defined" boxes: workstation, gaming, office, entertainment. This is a completely outdated concept if it ever was justified.

 

Tom's  might only help not choosing a big lemon, but since Notebookcheck and Ultrabookreview are much superior and can do the same  i don't even bother going there. I often commented in Notebookcheck to include more real world tests outside the "industry" castrating compartmentalised definitions and i don't know if i contributed to it but they started to include Blender GPU render performance . Ultrabookreview already did that. You can go to these two places and can discriminate the information you need for your particular case most of the time. Both sites still don't do bench's about video editing so it is an area they can be improved.

[jaybee83]

well ill be damned, would you look at that! 🙂 good for him! and makes the ol' NBR crew proud

[kojack]

On 12/11/2022 at 4:49 PM, Bullit said:

I don't use my "gaming" laptop for gaming. Tom's reviews don't help me at all choosing a system. Unfortunately American media is too formatted, too compartmentalised into "market defined" boxes: workstation, gaming, office, entertainment. This is a completely outdated concept if it ever was justified.

 

Tom's  might only help not choosing a big lemon, but since Notebookcheck and Ultrabookreview are much superior and can do the same  i don't even bother going there. I often commented in Notebookcheck to include more real world tests outside the "industry" castrating compartmentalised definitions and i don't know if i contributed to it but they started to include Blender GPU render performance . Ultrabookreview already did that. You can go to these two places and can discriminate the information you need for your particular case most of the time. Both sites still don't do bench's about video editing so it is an area they can be improved.

I agree with this one hundred percent. 

[Reciever]

Its good to see @Charles P. Jefferies still dabbling in the space :)