I was on stage (testranking.com) I completely froze when PG started to fire questions at me.
It is amazing how fast he got to the core points.
It was my first time on stage, it is really hard to prepare for this kind of experience.
It was my first time on stage, it is really hard to prepare for this kind of experience.
I always spend a lot of time researching products before buying, and I would use a site like yours if I could validate your rankings. Perhaps offer a straightforward recommendation, but provide the option of letting the user understand everything that went into that score.
Also, you said you are using conversion rate as a datapoint. Laptops are a big purchase and sometimes people don't purchase right away, or they research online and then go in store. For your next product, you could get some quick data like Paul was suggesting by reviewing a product that is easy for people to impulse buy. Perhaps something like home media players (WDTV, Boxee, Roku).
I applaud you for even getting up there to take criticism so publicly.
The ASUS G73SW-A1 listing says this in the Display summary:
"Looking at the screen both indoors and outdoors is a generally enjoyable experience"
Then this in the Display details:
"The reflections on this screen cause its usability to be close to minimal. Users will only be able to comfortably view the display in either dark environment or with the least possible amount of lighting. Outdoor use will prove to be absurd; patience and continuous focus will be required for any actual and efficient use of this laptop under medium lighting conditions."
These seem contradictory, and there were little inconsistencies everywhere I looked.
It is a fun idea/project though!
The MBP is known to be a good match for many "performance"-tasks such as video editing and graphical work.
The current problem with our website is: We didn't put the newest data up. We have other plans with it and kind of starved the consumer version of new laptops. Nevertheless your points are very valid, the categorizing of products needs improvement, very much. We have many better gaming laptops in our complete database, I hope we will manage to make them available to everyone in the next few weeks.
About the wording, we are no native speakers, so our English is definitely a week point.