http://www.anandtech.com/ also has some pretty awesome reviews (for hardware).

Agreed, it's a reference, but I don't recall 20+ pages reviews. (Both had very well executed website redesigns too)

GeForce GTX 680: 20 pages http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-re...

Ivy Bridge: 21 pages http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core...

I'm sure there are others.

The SSD series were not technically review but went well beyond 20 e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/ is 27 pages.

You're right. It probably felt shorter because of the game testing parts.

Yeah, not all pages on anandtech reviews clock in at a thousand words, usually, and the number of graphs (especially for GPU reviews) make flying through much faster, almost slideshow-like in some cases.

The GTX 680 review clocks in at about 15k words, fwiw.

While they aren't usually quite this long, Ars Technica is known for its excellent reviews and feature stories.

Excellence indeed. I re-read some of Jon Stokes (http://arstechnica.com/author/hannibal/) reviews, low-level architecture (ppc970, ps2,..) ones especially.

edit: http://archive.arstechnica.com/cpu/03q1/ppc970/ppc970-0.html with the glorious old design

Notsureifpraiseorcriticism

Neither do I.. truth lies in between I guess. Rare are articles that long, which I value, but it can be a bit "overwhelming" at first.