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January 11, 2006
Apple's Double Standard on Benchmarking
When Apple tried to prove that G5 was better than Intel, they used a generic non-optimised GCC compiler for the Intel machine. This time, they used an optimised Intel compiler to prove that Intel is better than the G5. How quickly we forget!
Read the full article at ExtremeTech.com. (Thanks Digg).
Posted by jasonogrady at January 11, 2006 10:28 PM
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Comments
Marketing at its finest. Any Wharton class would have you doing the same.
Posted by: Johnny K at January 12, 2006 2:36 AM
Benchmarks never lie, but liars benchmark.
Posted by: Joel at January 12, 2006 2:27 PM
