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from: Frank Haber
date: 2006-01-11 18:14:46
subject: Re: apple skews the benchmarks

From: "Frank Haber" 

Well, yeah.  Jobs is a marketer - do you seriously expect technical
honesty? Rigor?  Bwahaha.

Cases in point:

When the P3 just had a massive mips and clock-speed advantage, Apple
mumbled on about floating-point and integration of same with the graphics
subsystem. True for PS7 users.  For others.....?

When the P4 had piplelines too many and too long, and Jobs still had lame
clock speeds, Apple went on and on about cache flushes (with more
justification).

Da capo.

You don't seriously expect any pro to use PShop under Rosetta on the new
machines, until there's a native version, do you?  Until then, the new
users will enjoy smappier launch of their browsers, etc.  Apple has always
been superb on the "feel-good" aspect of their pseudo-science. 
Hey, it's less pernicious than religion.

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