On 6/25/03 11:53 PM, Dan Stewart posted: >Yes, the comparisons with the dual Xeon *were* complete fabrications. >Check out www.spec.org for the *correct* P4 and dual Xeon numbers, not the >Apple-cooked ones.
See user reports with no third-party verification on www.spec.org. These systems may be overclocked, but some people believe that because they've been posted on the Internet, they must be correct. Not true. Apple had their testing lab go so far as to test the P4 both with and without Hyperthreading, under both Windows and Linux, and published the best result. With the Xeon, they tested as both single and dual processor configurations and again published the best result, whether obtained in Windows (yeah, right) or Linux. >Once again, we see Apple comparing the The Fastest Mac On The Planet >(availability be damned!) to 6 month old PC systems. Wow. Color me >unimpressed. Why not a no holds barred, all out comparison against The >Fastest PC On The Planet? The fastest Intel CPUs available at the time of testing were 3.06 GHz P4s. The 3.2 GHz model was released last Monday, the same day Apple announced the G5. And you expect the lab somehow had one to test against the G5? I'm sure we'll see further comparisons when the G5 design is finalized, OS X 10.2.7 is finalized, and production product is available. Look for PC Magazine and others to do real world testing in August or September when the dual 2.0 GHz G5 is actually available -- and compare it to the fastest PC systems on the market. That will tell us a lot more than SPEC benchmarks or Photoshop actions that run twice as fast. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> Bill Gates was so impressed by the iMac that they were going to offer the blue-screen-of-death in a choice of colours. ;-) -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
