Being as objective as I know how, I really believe the Apple numbers are
simply more deceptive than anything I've seen from another PC
manufatcurer. Ever.

Seriously, the x86 PC world is (IMO) overly benchmark oriented. It's an
obsession. But as such, it's also highly scrutinized. If Dell, Compaq,
etc or even Nvidia, ATI, Intel, AMD had posted numbers that were so
obviously skewed *to that severity*, they would be laughed off of the PC
map at least as badly as Apple.

Believe me or not, as you choose, but Apple is getting no more grief
from the community than any other company would for this degree of
jivishness on the numbers, given such a milestone product introduction.
..

Regards,
Brian T

Scott Dorsey wrote:

And PC users don't see it as an attempted deception when PC manufacturer
A shows numbers twice as good as manufacturer B, and they buy the machine
from manufacturer A and runs their applications more slowly?

I think you are unfairly blaming Apple for something common to the whole
industry.
--scott