__/ [ GreyCloud ] on Wednesday 22 February 2006 05:07 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> (probably no surpirse here)
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>> http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/macosx/
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>> Linux versus Mac OS X and G5 versus Opteron Benchmarks
>
> What are you trying to do? Make me sick?? :-(
>
> I was wondering why IBM and Apple had to get together to make a custom
> processor for Apple. To slow it down.
>
> It seems industry is getting quite dishonest.
I never had any doubt in my mind. Macs are slow. They are built for de-
signers; they are built for 'showtime'. I would never want to run an ex-
periment on a candy Apple. Then again, it's an inevitable tradeoff. This
amateur benchmark that was conducted does not do a like-with-like compar-
sion. Even a like-with-like benchmark suffers from subjectivity, as in all
benchmark that choose conditions that support the hypothesis (or the
source of funding).
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