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to: Frank Haber
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2006-01-11 18:26:40
subject: Re: apple skews the benchmarks

From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:43c590b5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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.
>
>

I'm waiting for the quick release A/C cord to lose it's magnetism and start
dropping off MacBooks.

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