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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