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Best product review

December 22nd, 2011 at 9:20 am by Dr. Drang

Much talk on Mac blogs this week about product reviews, strong opinions, and the journalists/blogger/fanboy division. I was reminded of that when this popped up in my Twitter stream just a few minutes ago. It is, I believe, the best product review I’ve ever seen.

Now, it’s true that I had no idea what a LeapCard was when I read the tweet, but it was easy enough to find out. I’m sorry I have no need for one. To an engineer, “acceptable” is the best recommendation.

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Post #1714 | 2 Comments

2 Responses to “Best product review”

1. Allen B. MacKenzie says:
   December 23rd, 2011 at 5:35 am

   You may have seen on Twitter that my family is moving to Dublin for a year, starting this summer. Now I have something else to look forward to—my very own LeapCard.

2. Dr. Drang says:
   December 23rd, 2011 at 9:38 pm

   We are a full-service blog, Allen.

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