Reviewers receive units at least a couple of weeks before launch with strict embargoes not to talk about it or publish anything.

Also large developers like Adobe, Microsoft would have had retail units months ago to help with final testing.

No, that's because some of the people don't have first principles and trust at all and instead of validating they just make stuff up ;-)

I was trying to point out that disputing things is fine, but the whole basis of a website where benchmarks are uploaded is trust-and-reputation-over-time to the point where enough other people can re-run the same tests on their machines (one they get them) to validate the results. Heck, you might almost call that science!

Right now, there aren't additional results and you can't easily reproduce them because the machines aren't wide spread or available. But we can take the track record and reputation of the site and application and use that to value the integrity of the published benchmarks to be 'likely correct'.