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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Neil McIntosh

How fast is the G5?

Back in London now and starting to look over some of the online reaction to last night's keynote. The most interesting thing I've seen so far is Tom Yager's thoughts on the benchmark results used by Jobs on stage last night (via Scripting News).

He says Apple messed around with the results, by optimising the Mac performance but not the rival Dell's. "The test results are invalidated by severely lopsided testing conditions..." he writes. "So what?", you might ask - you'd expect one company to try and get its products shown in the best light possible, wouldn't you? Yager hits the nail on the head: "None of this would be a problem if Apple and Veritest didn't claim the tests were objective... The Power Mac G5 shows major ass-kicking potential. Apple's got too much class to resort to sketchy benchmarks."

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