Criticism of our MacBook Air review

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Feb 13, 20081 min

Not everyone is thrilled with our review this week of Apple’s MacBook Air. One voice of dissent, who writes for The Inquirer, even goes so far as to call tester Paul Venezia a “fanboy reviewer.”

“Isn’t it odd that although I’m apparently a ‘hack’ trying to put positive spin on Apple’s products, I decided to write an entire sidebar about a negative experience?” Venezia writes in Let the Games begin.

This is hardly the first time that a Test Center evaluation of an Apple product has caused a stir.

“Last July, InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager wrote a review of the iPhone that drew, shall we say, a little flak. After he evaluated the iPhone as a device for enterprise users, Tom gave it a measly score of 4.9 out of 10. Vitriolic Apple fans accused Tom of taking bribes from Microsoft (four months later, his decision to award Apple’s Leopard OS a perfect 10 drew accusations he was on Apple’s payroll. We look forward to finding out what other companies are paying him, too),” editor-in-chief Eric Knorr explains in Mobile madness: iPhone, MacBooks and Android.