"Taking a look at all the rest of the benchmark scores, the Mac is beaten consistently by the PC. If you look to the left of the Dell Precision Workstation 470 scores, you'll notice that the ABS dual Intel Xeon 3.4 GHz machine also beats the Mac G5 on all of the tests except one as well. Keep in mind, the 3.4GHz Xeon chip is the second-fastest Xeon chip in Intel's line, and all of the Intel Xeon chips are due for a speed bump in the second quarter of this year (2005)," reports Digital Media Net Executive Producer Charlie White in Creative Mac.
Comment: The fastest Mac is a G5, Dual 2.5GHz machine with 4GB of memory, and it's beaten in every test but one by a Dual Intel Xeon 3.4GHz PC with only 2GB. The Xeon machine also beats a Dual AMD Opteron 248 (2.21GHz) PC with 2GB of memory in all but one test, where the scores are level. As we know, the PC also blows the Mac G5 out of the water running an optimised DOOM 3.
I'm now waiting for Steve Jobs to buy some TV advertising that looks back at previous ads -- you know, showing a Pentium on the back of a snail, or someone being blown out of the house by a G5 Mac -- and apologising.
There's no shame in being marginally slower than a not-very-popular PC configuration. The shame is in misleading people about it.
