While that can be good for getting an overview of what's available on the market...

While that can be good for getting an overview of what's available on the market, it can also lead to frustration.

For instance searching for RAM, mainboard, etc., then going to the site of the product just to discover there is already a new,

(supposedly) better edition available, but nobody is stocking that, or willing to do so.

Depending on your view it gives a distorted view of what is available, compared to what could be available.

Imagine they'd get their list directly from the OEMs, and show how lagging the merchants are.

Like a visualization of the supply-chain, the capacity of the channel, and how lagging and incomplete the merchants are.

Like a diff-view between what is available at the source, how it moves into the channel(s), an when it is available for you (if at all!)

I guess it depends on what is being tested by the countless hardware review sites, and what's known to the people.

Whereas I, scroogy as usual, from time to time have to source several dozen to about a hundred low-end systems,

and prefer to get stuff from the "also runs" like

to run some form of Linux or BSD on it, for light office or remote desktop use.

Ghastly BIOS? Doesn't matter, is only used once during initial setup, and then after updates, if necessary.

No gaming Bling-Bling? Matters even less, since it has no useful function and is disabled, if it's there at all.

Bad VRMs or cooling of these? Does it matter when I don't overclock?

I'm doing this since about 15 years this way, and had no stress with this choices, at all.

All I did was checking the installation manual pdf of the mainboard for fan connectors, and choose them accordingly.

I'm too old-fashioned, I guess?

Anyway, enough of a rant.

Geizhals is the best we have, but it could be much better!

And thumbs-up for no-frills look&feel without dumbing it down!