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Denys writes:
>Come to
>find out, the iMac got its little clock cleaned when a Celeron 333MHz,
>costing virtually the same amount of money, outperformed it by 50%. They
>ran a suite of 30+ application benchmarks including Quake, Photoshop,
>Claris Works and Excel. The Celeron-based machine beat the iMac more than
>90% of the time. Louderback then invites you to see the details of the
>report at the PC-Week web site. I visited the web site and saw the
I can't find any review on the PC-Week web site. However, I did find the
review on the PC Mag web site. They turned off the Mac's graphics
acceleration for these comparisons, claiming:
>Enabling
>graphics acceleration mode would make full use of
>high-performance adapters such as the ATI Rage II+,
>at the expense of repeatable image precision. Virtual
>memory was turned off for all tests.
[The above was pasted directly from the review.] So they turn off the
Mac's built-in graphics acceleration and memory optimization, and then
discover that it's slower than the competition. Astounding. Next week,
they'll discover that the sky is blue.
>To
>think I might have fallen pray to misleading advertising, I am so ashamed.
To think you have fallen pray [sic] to misleading reviews. You're ashamed
for the wrong reason.
-- Bruce
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