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August 01, 2003
Performance Tests
I thought that this topic had already been covered but now I can't find the entry. Must be old age where your memory becomes like ... like ... like ... you know one of those things for holding spaghetti.
Anyway, when Apple released the G5, they published some benchmarks (I am sure I had them here somewhere). Within minutes the phrase 'Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!' was circulating the Wintel world. Accusations were flying thick and Apple put out an "explanation" with more details. Still the accusations were raised until somebody asked Intel directly and then everything died away.
Now a few of them are sneaking back over the horizon. Thanks to AtAT the rader has spotted them and AtAT has provided a fantastic link to debunk the myths (poor things will have to sleep on the floor now).
To get your interest going, let me quote a small section from the end of the article:
This whole brouhaha over the Veritest benchmarking stinks mightily. I smell a rat... in fact I smell a lot of rats. I smell the stink of hypocrisy from some corners but in the end all is overpowerd by The Smell of Fear.
Why? Because deep down underneath the Wintel Hegemony's longstanding arrogance dwells the gnawing fear that eventually the public might wake up and realize that the Wintel Hegemony has built everything on stolen, copied and second rate technology. They have kept this under control with paid stooges in the media, well placed FUD plants to divert the public away from the sleight of hand tricks that have been played on them. They have spent a lot of PR time loudly proclaiming "innovations" that they conveniently forget to mention are almost invariably something they copied from Apple, often years later and usually copied badly.
On a more serious front, the article also addresses the Intel attitute to AMD and why there are so many problems with the Intel 64 bit solution. Go read. Enjoy yourself (even if you hate Macs you will like the AMD bits).
Posted by Ozguru at August 1, 2003 08:08 AM
