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Talent in a Previous Life This Side Towards Enemy Member # 3098	written Friday, August 15 2003 10:50 Profile #25 http://spl.haxial.com/apple-powermac-G5/ I didn't understand too much of the technical detail of this article, but the gist of it is that Mac deliberately did biased speed tests and tried to mislead the public about the G5's actual speed. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00
Robinton Warrior Member # 3339	written Friday, August 15 2003 19:44 Profile #26 I only read about half of that, and didn't understand everything, but one of the tests that he had posted made me wonder. The gist of what I read: The G5 Mac was compared to the other fastest (or greatest or whatever) computers from other companies. The G5 is a duel processor. The others are not. For some reason, this isn't fair, so in the new test one of the Mac's processors was disabled, thus making the other computers faster. In other words, he turned off half of the Macintosh G5 and suddenly the other computers were faster. Go figure. I wonder what would happen if a Volkswagen Bug could win a race aginst a Corvet that has half power too. Lets test that now. -------------------- Finally returning after being away for a very long time. “Define Reality” Anybody else checking for the BoA release multiple times a day? Posts: 70 | Registered: Tuesday, August 12 2003 07:00
RentPeople Infiltrator Member # 2669	written Friday, August 15 2003 19:47 Profile Homepage #27 Does anyone really need the computing power to run NORAD if all they ever do is check their email and play games? -------------------- ... Posts: 647 | Registered: Wednesday, February 19 2003 08:00
Talent in a Previous Life This Side Towards Enemy Member # 3098	written Saturday, August 16 2003 13:25 Profile #28 Actually Orion, if you read that properly, you'd see that those tests only use one processor, so the second processor is of no use. The point is that Apple deliberately uptweaked its computers and downtweaked its opponents' computers to manipulate the results. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00
Robinton Warrior Member # 3339	written Saturday, August 16 2003 19:26 Profile #29 Ahh, OK. Thanks. But then, every company does that (for any product) and everybody says that they are the best, so the same could probably be said for all of thoes computers. -------------------- Finally returning after being away for a very long time. “Define Reality” Anybody else checking for the BoA release multiple times a day? Posts: 70 | Registered: Tuesday, August 12 2003 07:00

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