Apple upset by 'PC slaughters Mac'

Apple is upset, and has told MacWorld magazine that ""Apple stands by our (sic) claims that our latest Power Mac systems perform equal to or better than competing PC systems." This rattle-throwing incident goes back to a piece headed Mac vs. PC III: Mac Slaughtered Again, which appeared last November in the Mac-friendly Digital Producer Magazine magazine. It was simple stuff, based on running After Effects 5.5 and Photoshop 7.0 benchmarks, and the reuslts surely couldn't have surprised anyone who really uses both types of machine. But what seems to have pinged Jobs's reality distortion field is that Adobe has now added a PC Preferred page to its Web site highlighting the results. Perhaps the real problem is that Jobs uses Adobe software in his keynote speeches to "demonstrate" that dual-processor Macs are in reality much faster than single-processor PCs, not just faster at the same clock speed. The supersalesman doesn't like anyone undercutting his sales pitch. However, it would be a more convincing demo if Jobs took a couple of hundred standard applications off the shelf and compared those on both platforms, including a $499 PC. I'm sure Microsoft would be happy to send him a copy of Virtual PC....