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Subject: Re: impressive Power Mac G5 !

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 00:14:27 07/25/03

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On July 24, 2003 at 17:27:55, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>
>http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc03/ -> click "watch now" -> go to
>1:40:30; You will see Power Mac G5 perform a little more than 2 times faster
>than a dual Xeon 3.06 !!! Live run, screens side by side, with 4 or 5 different
>applications.

I haven't seen the movie since that quicktime player only plays sound, but I
still must point this out:

Viewing to machines running the same applications means nothing if you can't
trust the tester to have optimized the test equally for both machines. The
questions you have to ask yourself is do you trust Apple to test in a fair way,
perhaps those Xeons are really 1 GHz? (Don't give me any shit about showing
frequency on screen). I don't trust the tester.

Supposed you consider the results to be credible, is the test show performance
in the applications that matter to you? Even without seeing the movie I can bet
my behind that they don't test applications that show performance that matter to
me. I'd even guess they don't show applications that matter to many on this
forum.

/Regards Albert



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