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RE: the "what's the best . . ." question and how to conquer it

Um why is that a bad question? Things are often better and worse and that would lead to a best for numerous items. Certainly for items that don't require subjective preferences.

You might have to add qualifiers - What is the best printer. Maybe becomes what is the best all-around home user printer in terms of price per page, speed, accuracy, and photo quality.

Certainly that is a fair question and they measure printers for all of those aspects. Way back when I was buying a printer it turned out that Canon won on all points because when you ran out of yellow you could pay $10 and replace just the yellow tank. The HP if you ran out of Yellow (all the colours were in one tank) the whole tank had to be replaced. The Canon's speed was more than 2X the speed of the HP and was deemed to have better photo and print quality. So in that price class - at that time the Canon murdered everything else. Tomes change - could be the complete opposite now and some brand I've never heard of is kicking butt. Or maybe Canon is still the top.

Telescopes I know little about but presumably quality of image and how far away you can see through it would be things that can objectively measure. Hubble?



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