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Subject: Re: By the way...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:20:46 06/25/03

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On June 25, 2003 at 04:52:12, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 25, 2003 at 03:55:03, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks:
>>
>>http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/24/2154256.shtml?tid=126&tid=181
>
>I'll be darned.  An oinking weasel.

It obviously doesn't pass the smell test when Apple's scores disagree with the
officially submitted SPEC scores so dramatically, even if the VP does try to
justify their testing methodology.

The guy mentions that the PPC scores could have been higher if they had used a
different compiler? Uhhh, why didn't they do that and avoid this whole mess?

-Tom



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