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About this siteFor 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, May 19, 2006This might just be the most ignorant thing I've ever read...... and yes, I've seen a few of Ed Bott's explitive-laced rantings. But I've never seen one article contain so many inaccuracies all laid out in such rapid-fire fashion. Here are just a few:One of the myths about Apple has always been that Macs cost more than PCs - it was never true.It was always true, from 1984 on, and it's true now. Another myth about Apple used to be that PCs were faster. It was never true: each new PPC based Mac, when first introduced, was significantly faster than its PC competition. What confused the issue was that Mac product cycles used to last through three or more PC generations, meaning that a new PC introduced near the end of an Apple product cycle tended to be a bit faster than the oldest Macs in the line.The only thing that's confused is this guy. When the PowerPC first shipped, it was theoretically faster than comparable Intel chips because of the higher headroom of its RISC architecture. That advantage evaporated quickly. PowerPC chips have not been faster than x86 chips for quite some time. This is common knowledge. Apple's graphics are fundamentally PostScript based while Microsoft has always relied on proprietory libraries and bit twidling.I'm sorry. "Bit twidling?" Honest to God. And for the record, Postscript is as proprietary as anything Microsoft makes. I guess this guy never paid extra for Postscript capabilities in a printer. Postscript's successor, PDF, is also proprietary. the people who make graphics controllers can count and so optimize their products for Microsoft's approach - meaning that the same board in fundamentally the same PC will seem to perform better with Windows Vista then with MacOS X.They only seem to perform better. Those benchmarks are all fake. Ahem. And this isn't the only blatant bit of coffee-spewing stupidity I read this morning. The normally reliable Steve Lohr once again perpetuated the myth that Apple's market share is "less than 5 percent." Technically, that's true, but only because 2 percent is indeed "less than 5 percent." Come on Steve. [ Posted at 9:03 AM | Permalink ]
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