Announcing New Editor-in-Chief Tom’s Hardware

Wow! Apparently we have a new commander at Tom’s this time around. David Strom has been named the new Editor-in-Chief for the online publication. I hope it works out for him and he has a great time at the reigns.

Spring. Time of renewal, and rebirth. Flowers, birds, bees, cats and dogs in heat. It is a glorious time. And for us, your humble servants at Tom’s, it is a time of urgency. We woke from our winter slumber to the realization that the world has changed dramatically in the last year. What was a glitch is now a trend. The hardware world will never be the same as it was: a go-go land of opportunity where every micron of silicon in development promised to change the fabric of the space-time continuum.

There is now a sense of urgency on our part. We have to move with the times, and we have to make sure that we don’t lose our sense of wonder, our excitement, and our belief in technology. We can’t become some prissy Blog loving, iPod wearing, bunch of Jobs sycophants - like the rest of them tech journos. We are hard headed, hard minded, and hard living. We want our tech rough and ready, engaging, challenging, intellectual, open, ahead of the game, not something we’d palm off on our grandmother.

So, in a world where there are basically two CPU vendors, two graphics chip makers, five motherboard companies, and one partridge and one pear tree, we must seek new wonders, as well as working the old. We can’t rely on what was and we don’t want to be just about what is. We need to be like you: about what can be, what should be, what really has to be. [Read the rest]