Review Comparisons

For my review paper, I am writing about my laptop that I had purchased at the end of the summer, the Lenovo Y50. This is Lenovo’s newest model laptop of the Y series and was only out for several months when I bought mine. I read two reviews, one critic and one user, on the laptop. The critic review came from TechRadar.com and was written by Kevin Lee. TechRadar is a well-known critic site for electronics. This review I thought was very thorough and overall without much bias to cloud the judgment on the laptop itself. I read several user reviews on Lenovo’s website by various anonymous writers who had bought the laptop. These reviews were much less thorough and generally much more focused on a few aspects of the laptop that users either really liked or really hated. Lee, as opposed to the anonymous buyers, seemed to be doing his best to disregard his own personal likes and dislikes about previous Lenovo products and tried only to focus on this laptop. Lee’s professional review of the laptop also seemed to focus much more on the laptop itself rather than the price. This makes sense due to the idea that, if the reader has chosen to read this review, he or she most likely already knows the price of the laptop and is considering buying the computer. This is contrary to the user reviews in that most of the user reviews discussed the quality of the laptop in regards to the price of the Y50 and other competitive laptops. Another difference that I had noticed in these two different types of reviews was that the professional review tended to compare this laptop with one or two other laptops in the market. Whether he was comparing the performance, hardware, or the general feel of the laptop, he would always mention another product that might be better or worse for the consumer if that is a specific area they were looking for. The user reviews however mostly commented on only the Y50 as that is the laptop that they were familiar with.