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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Friday, September 26, 2003

Honest examination of Apple's G5 benchmarks
It's always nice when someone calls a spade a spade. It's particularly nice when it's someone who knows what he's talking about. "When Apple claimed the Power Mac G5 was the 'the world’s fastest personal computer', I thought, 'Yeah? Prove it.'" Jarrod Spiga writes. "Check out the company’s Web site and you’ll see that an Intel Pentium 4 system outperforms the G5 in the single-processor, integer-operation SPECint_base2000 benchmark. This test represents the types of processing most single-processor machines do, and it’s the only processor-based result relative to the majority of PC users. Interestingly, a 3.0GHz P4 chip was used and not the faster 3.2GHz, even though it’s been available for months. How can anyone say they have the World’s Fastest PC crown without testing against the fastest gear available from the competition, or proving dominant performance in the most common type of processing task?" Simple, Jarrod. They can't. And yet, Apple does this type of thing all the time. Apple lovers suck it up like so much Johannesburg Kool-Aid. People like me, well, it drives us nuts.

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