“I guess we’re all tired of the endless PC versus Mac debate, I for myself have decided to not enter such a discussion with anyone again. If you’re comfortable using a Mac I’m not going to try and make you switch. Apple however has added more fuel to the fire today by releasing performance data for a number of dual G5 processor PowerPCs. Naturally Apple wouldn’t be Apple if the Mac didn’t beat the Pentium 4 by nearly 100%, that’s to be expected with benchmark data coming from Apple. What’s surprising though is the fact that they also benchmarked an Athlon-64 and concluded it performed far, far worse than the Pentium 4.
Last time we checked the Pentium 4 had a hard time keeping pace with the Athlon-64, even with the Pentium 4 running at double the clockspeed, so we are left scratching our heads as to what exactly has Apple been doing, could they have mixed up the numbers by mistake? Well, that’s entirely possible, as just about everyone knowledgeable about computers will tell you that clock for clock the Athlon-64 is the better processor. But there’s more, as becomes evident from reading the small print published with the benchmarks. The small print actually details that although available Apple hasn’t used identical applications on all systems for benchmarking.”
Shame on you Apple
