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TechSpot's Product Finder: Our Latest Project
For about a year we've been working behind the scenes on our latest project, the TechSpot Product Finder, a comprehensive up-to-date catalog of tech products. We hope this becomes your next destination to make well-informed decisions when you go out shopping for your next laptop, SSD, monitor, digital camera, HTPC, tablet, or even your next media player.
Think of it as a Metacritic for computer enthusiasts, the Product Finder is divided in five main sections: Computer Hardware, Systems (PCs, Laptops, Tablets), Smartphones, Electronics, and PC Games.
 Cameras |
 Desktop PCs |
 Keyboards |
 Laptops |
 Motherboards |
 PC Games |
 Monitors |
 Printers |
 Smartphones |
 Storage |
 Tablets |
 Cases |
 Speakers |
 Power Supplies |
 Home Audio & Video |
 Processors |
 Routers |
 TVs |
 Mice |
 And More! |
We are opening the new section in beta form today, so you can take advantage of it right away. We have yet to write a FAQ explaining some of the internal processing and criteria we use, but for now two things to keep in mind:
1) We give products an average score based on all the reviews we can find for them across the web.
2) We apply a special algorithm to show you the hottest and freshest possible products in each category, so whenever you are looking for "the best camera" to buy, we can come up with answers right away by browsing the first page or two for that product category (*hint: also check out the data filters to narrow down your searches).
As with all beta launches, you may find some stuff is broken. We'll appreciate your help sending us feedback. Our intent is to keep improving the section in the coming weeks and integrate Product Finder data to all the things we do on TechSpot. Thanks again for your support and we hope you enjoy the new section --- see feature highlight screenshots after the jump.
Product Finder available from our main menu on top.
Featured products in each category showing color-coded metascores.
Metascores with our 4-tier breakdown: Excellent, Good, Average and Bad.
Popular products carry handwritten descriptions and all have multiple angle shots.
Pros and cons give you a quick glimpse of what editors liked and disliked about each product.
Comparison shopping is available on the side for your convenience.
User Comments (53)
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g4mer
on September 22, 2011 2:41 AM |
This is awesome! |
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SalaSSin
on September 22, 2011 3:02 AM |
Nice! A bit like testfreaks.com I guess, but I like it! Already checking out my future motherboard Keep the good work up, guys! |
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gwailo247
on September 22, 2011 3:23 AM |
Very cool. Are you guys planning on adding a section where TechSpot members who are owners of a given product can give their feedback too? I think that would be very useful. |
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Julio Franco
on September 22, 2011 3:26 AM |
@gwailo247, that's certainly on the plans but we'll take it one step at a time |
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spydercanopus
on September 22, 2011 3:41 AM |
Great idea. I could use a product rating aggregate service. Hope it gets to be fairly extensive and fairly fair. |
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spydercanopus
on September 22, 2011 3:42 AM |
gwailo247 said: Very cool. Are you guys planning on adding a section where TechSpot members who are owners of a given product can give their feedback too? I think that would be very useful. Would be nice to have proof of purchase, but that would be a lot of man power. |
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Guest
on September 22, 2011 4:49 AM |
this is sweet.. just took a look... cant believe how good it is, and why has no one done this before? |
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haroonferoz84
on September 22, 2011 5:24 AM |
i love the new feature of the website your website is more organize than others and simple keep up the good works and best wishes |
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Arris
on September 22, 2011 6:39 AM |
Great addition to the Techspot! |
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Burty117
on September 22, 2011 6:59 AM |
spydercanopus said: gwailo247 said: Very cool. Are you guys planning on adding a section where TechSpot members who are owners of a given product can give their feedback too? I think that would be very useful. Would be nice to have proof of purchase, but that would be a lot of man power. I guess what techspot could do it review the user review of the product and make sure that they go into enouh detail that proves they have had at least hands on contact with it? I think Proof of purchase would be going a bit far and to be fair, I don't have proof of purchase on a few of my products because i've either won them or been given them! |
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Guest
on September 22, 2011 7:08 AM |
It is a (very) good start. I believe your filters should have more characteristics. For example. I looked at storage, then at SSD's, but you didn't have a filter for size. As I am looking for around 120 GB, I had to go through a number of pages to find all of them, and some of the titles didn't have the size, so I had to open them to find out what the size was. Being able to select a number of products for side to side comparisons would be helpful as well. All of this takes time, so as I say, it is a good start. |
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Benny26
on September 22, 2011 8:43 AM |
Great idea - and well needed for Techspot. |
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Wagan8r
on September 22, 2011 8:44 AM |
burty117 said: spydercanopus said: gwailo247 said: Very cool. Are you guys planning on adding a section where TechSpot members who are owners of a given product can give their feedback too? I think that would be very useful. Would be nice to have proof of purchase, but that would be a lot of man power. I guess what techspot could do it review the user review of the product and make sure that they go into enouh detail that proves they have had at least hands on contact with it? I think Proof of purchase would be going a bit far and to be fair, I don't have proof of purchase on a few of my products because i've either won them or been given them! Or at the very least, make sure that only registered users of TechSpot can leave reviews. But in regards to the article, I think that this is awesome! Good work, guys, and keep it up! |
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MilwaukeeMike
on September 22, 2011 8:53 AM |
Great idea, i've used your buying guides in a a couple builds for people, and a good source for other products is a resource I'll use a lot. You guys rock! |
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---agissi---
on September 22, 2011 9:03 AM |
I took a quick look at it, very nice work. However the first thing I want to do is sort by price from low to high, that way I can find the medium for quality product to low price. There is no sort by price from low to high |
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treeski
on September 22, 2011 9:04 AM |
I hope you implement some kind of score degradation system. Scores should gradually decrease over time as they compare to current technology (or, a secondary, relavancy score could be added). Many (for example) phones are still available on the market that got good reviews a year ago, but realistically they don't deserve the same score today. Otherwise, everything looks great and I will definitely make use of this new feature. Thanks =D |
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treeski
on September 22, 2011 9:08 AM |
Also, you have the ThermalTake Chaser MK-I listed, but the product links within go to some keyboard. |
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Cota
on September 22, 2011 10:09 AM |
Awesome, now we only need to keep away fake reviews |
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yRaz
on September 22, 2011 10:12 AM |
wagan8r said: Or at the very least, make sure that only registered users of TechSpot can leave reviews. But in regards to the article, I think that this is awesome! Good work, guys, and keep it up! Perhaps a minimum post count should be required before someone can post a review? |
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mosu
on September 22, 2011 10:32 AM |
I hope I'm not crashing your party, but popularity ranking is stupid and drives the crowd toward Intel products in a pure Apple style.There should be an option for processor type both in motherboards and laptops section.There should be categories of laptops such as netbooks, ultrabooks, student type, gaming laptops and so on, options valid through other categories.One can not buy hardware just for the bragging rights, SO NOT SO GOOD IN IMPLEMENTATION AS IT WAS IN INTENTION. |
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T77
on September 22, 2011 10:48 AM |
congratulations! A very good initiative.I particularly like the features regarding the pros & cons,and also the reviews which are categorised by 'good', 'excellent', 'bad' , that way one will know about the positives as well as negatives which people encountered during their extensive usage.I haven't seen such concept anywhere else. :p |
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TomSEA
on September 22, 2011 10:49 AM |
Excellent! Great work guys. This will definitely come in handy. |
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Guest
on September 22, 2011 11:00 AM |
The Product Finder seems like a nice addition to Techspot but what happened to the Deals page? The one that could be sorted by date and hotness of the deal. |
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gwailo247
on September 22, 2011 11:13 AM |
I didn't mean to make a mountain of out a molehill, I just figured that some of the members who build or service computers could probably add a lot of real world information that a tech writer may not have access to in the same way, say advising us that a given video card is very hard to clean, or a given CPU cooler tends to start making a noise after six months. Obviously having Guest write "Nvidia sucks, buy AMD" on every Nvidia card article would be pointless, but I think that this site's members would be a valuable resource to be tapped. The forums are filled with lots of people who give great hardware advice in terms of purchase and service, and it would be good IMO to channel that knowledge into product reviews, where they would be more accessible than forum searching. |
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Guest
on September 22, 2011 11:19 AM |
Very well done, but i'll stick to traditional methods and newegg customer reviews. |
Just from price X to Y.
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