Just to be clear...

It's all about perception. PC users see it as an attempted deception. It
would have been wiser on Apple's part to find a bunch of benchmarks in which
the G5 clearly excels (hopefully benchmarks unlike SPEC where one can go
find much better scores than Apple's for P4 on the official SPEC site... and
no scores for G5)... and avoid other benchmarks. That's typically what the
"PC Folks" are up to when trying to make their stuff look good.

I had much less of a problem with Apple when they were showing the G4 to be
faster than other CPUs by using very specific Adobe Photoshop benchmarks.
That's just selective benchmarking. As long as you aren't a review site,
that method seems at least somewhat honest to me.

-S

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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Scott Reams wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way. This has nothing to do with one being
better
than the other. The G5 could turn out to be the fastest system on the
planet... and that would be great. The issue here is Apple's marketing,
which comes off as deceptive to potential switchers in the PC world.
There
are better ways to appeal to those not already using Apple computers.
Being
straight up is one of those ways.

Deceptive marketing through benchmarks has been the order of the day in
the computer industry since T.J. Watson's era. Why does Apple's latest
foray into doubtful benchmarks surprise you? The PC folks do the same
thing, as do most of the workstation vendors.

Who believes numbers from the manufacturer? Next thing you know, you will
be believing the response plots on microphone data sheets (which are
almost
always artificially smoothed, and occasionally totally made up).
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."