April Fools Aftermath

In case some of you have not noticed our latest review featuring the Tyan Trinity is actually an April Fools joke.

and it just keeps on giving.

You see several years ago (before the whole nVidia SLI thing) I planning on doing this little April Fools review where I take some old piece of hardware and somehow make it new (or at least seem like it was new). As the K6 is really no longer something that people think of it seemed like the perfect candidate, heck you take the heat spreader off and it looks like an Athlon XP. I spent a few months getting stuff off ebay and raiding my own stash until I got the perfect combination of old and new hardware.

Since then I missed a few April 1sts for various reasons but each year I came back to the same idea hoping for just the right time to make it happen.

Well, as you have guessed the joke finally made it out into the open and not only did it get some good press but it's still getting it!

One thing everyone should know about the hardware review site world is that 10% of the sites out there get 90% of the traffic and well, getting your stuff out for others to read is sometimes a pretty big chore. So far the most reliable way to accomplish this is to spam the snot out of your fellow site owners.

Some sites are better than others in getting the daily news posted, most only post news from sites they know, and others post every little thing that comes in. We here at Ninjalane only post the stuff we find interesting which also means 8 times out of 14 we actually read the review in question. One thing is certain this is a lot of email and the majority of it rarely gets read (much like normal spam). after awhile the person in charge of posting the daily news just mindlessly post whatever they get and then go off to play Xbox or something.

Now don't get me wrong its not like anyone emailed me about the review saying "you suck" or "good job, that was funny" but I have to wonder…

Is that Xbox game really that good??, If so let me borrow a copy.

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