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This doesn't need more regulation. Just stop trusting professional reviewers who are not bound by the existing false advertising laws that the manufacturers/retails already are. If you want to know how something performs, read the specs published by the manufacturer. If they're too shy to say how slow it is, then there's a reason for that!

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Yes it does need more regulation. It is fraud and as a manufacturer you shouldn't be allowed to get away with deceptive shit like this.

It might be deceptive, but only because consumers somehow believe product names correspond to unchanging products. They obviously don't, across many industries. Cars keep the same names but change design every few years. Food keeps changing package size and recipe. It's everywhere! They didn't promise not to change it, and the products still conform to the published specs. If you're too lazy to read that from the horse's mouth and rely on outdated 3rd party reviewers, that's on you.

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