Originally Posted by MRRiley 
just an observation... PopPhoto may be "independant" but they are not unbiased. As has already been mentioned by other posters, they ignored things like the NR settings and made derogatory statements. Note that they always use all of the tricks and tweaks whe they test CaNokons. A "benefit of the doubt" that they rarely afford Pentax.
So don't consider their article as "confirmation" but as just another subjective evaluation. It puts plusses and minuses in several fields, but many more tests are needed to get more general and averaged results.
Seems to me that a lot of review readers show their biases too. Not to pick on you specifically, but, for example, the first page of the review says:
Impressive specs? Yes, but the K20D produced impressive results in the Pop Photo Lab, especially in resolution and detail at most ISOs. At 2350 lines of resolution at ISO 100–400, the K20D delivers slightly higher resolution than the Nikon D300. Then resolution drops by 5–10 percent as you crank up noise reduction at higher ISOs. Nonetheless, at ISO 6400, the resolution was still Excellent at 2100 lines.
(Bold added by me.)
So, not only do they have nice things to say about the camera over Nikon, they very clearly talk about NR.
The introductory statement of the review even says "[we] found five reasons why this camera promises to be a big hit", and the article concludes with favorable comparisons vs. the Canon 40D. But this isn't apparently positive enough for everyone to jump to cries of "unfair!!!".
To me, it really appears that a lot of people are quick to cry "bias!" whenever a review says something positive about one of the big two brands (and, c'mon, be honest — they're the big two brands because they make freakin' good cameras) or when they mention a negative of the reader's favorite brand.
C'mon.