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Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Power Mac G5: Still not the world's fastest personal computer (Part one)
The Inquirer (I know, I know) notes that Apple's PowerMac G5 was trounced recently by PCs based on AMD's 64-bit Operton and Athlon 64 processors. "The Athlon 64 FX system outperforms the 64-bittish G5 systems in most of the benchmarks, including Premiere 6, Word, and Quake III," the article notes. "The dual Opteron system beats the dual G5 in [all but one] Photoshop test." What makes the benchmarks all the more credible: PC World worked with MacWorld to do the tests, and MacWorld benchmarked the Macs themselves.
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