In a private message to me, Denys Beauchemin wrote:

>Bruce, I am disappointed in you.  The report you quote is from CMP, the
>reports I mentioned are from Ziff-Davis.  These are two very different
>companies.  (At least, I think they still are.)

Denys is correct. The honestly misleading benchmark was on the TechWeb
web site, not the PC Mag web site. My apologies to Denys for suggesting
he failed to detect an explicitly bent benchmark.

I have already communicated to him the reason that the PC Mag one is
flawed, but the topic is not of general interest. If anyone wants the
details, email me privately and I'll send a copy of that communication. I
trust that anyone who's considering the purchase of any computer will
talk to someone who actually has some experience using it before making a
decision.

-- Bruce


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