Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged 1595
An anonymous reader was the first of a seemingly infinite stream of people to submit a URL to an argument that makes the case that the G5 isn't quite what Apple wants you to think of it. The evidence? Apple's own press material. Worth a read.
Think Different (Score:5, Funny)
I'm shocked, shocked, (Score:5, Funny)
eh? (Score:5, Funny)
translation
i am too stupid to round up.
Picking and choosing benchmark results?! (Score:3, Funny)
Really smart guy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:spl=troll (Score:1, Funny)
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll be a "praise Apple time" soon, but for now we're going to treat Apple the way Bill Gates wanted to when he found out about Safari.
Re:spl=troll (Score:5, Funny)
Ummm...this is
Are you new here?
(yeah, yeah, pot, kettle, black)
Re:eh? (Score:2, Funny)
I work for... (Score:1, Funny)
I am a Mac user. I have been using Macs for years. I am writing this article on a PowerMac G4. I enjoy using Macs.
Re:eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Flick through any computer magazine and you'll see hundreds of systems priced at $/£/â x99. And the same is true of cars, houses, TVs and just about every other non-grocery item.
To suddenly attribute this to just Apple and Dell is like picking on a kid just because he's got two legs and two arms.
Re:Quite (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, Please. We all know we'll never ever need more than 640k.
Benchmarks...who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
Go use a machine, for tasks you'd typically perform -- that's the only benchmark that matters.
But if you must assign a number to the size of your virtual phallus, by all means, benchmark away...
Re: spl=troll (Score:2, Funny)
> Yes, it's "slam Apple time" here on Slashdot. Submit your anti-Apple articles and we'll post them.
No problem; the daily SCO story will be up in a little while and then everyone will forget about Apple until tomorrow!
Re: whatever (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MAC PROBLEM! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:whatever (Score:5, Funny)
Misleading Prices
Both Apple and Dell are guilty of using misleading prices. For example, Apple gives the price of the low-end G5 as "$1999", and the high-end G5 as "$2999". In other words, they have subtracted $1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper, which is absolutely ridiculous. This demonstrates that both Apple and Dell are willing to mislead people when stating their prices.
Next crackpot, please.
Re:I'm shocked, shocked, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What about the backplane???? (Score:1, Funny)
Yes. It's under warranty.
Re:Quite (Score:2, Funny)
Probably Minesweeper on Microsoft's next OS.
Re: whatever (Score:3, Funny)
Even if it had a four-bit operating system made by a two-bit company? :)
Re:Quite (Score:5, Funny)
Why, I remember how appalled I was when my friend had an Apple IIgs with 1 MB - 1 megabyte!!! - of RAM, a decade or so ago. What kind of hedonist needs that much? Bah.
These damn kids today, with their gigabytes and their FireWire and their "rock 'n' roll" music and the hair and the clothes...
Re:The Photoshop and Mathematica benchmarks rock (Score:4, Funny)
Ummm... Put 1 gig in each of its 8 slots?
Re:whatever (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Here we go again (Score:2, Funny)
Then we can really start the fan wars.
The Mac zealot replies to this guy's site were pretty funny, but Amiga worshippers are in a different league...
Re:whatever (Score:1, Funny)
Well shit, here, take my $3000! Quickly!
best flame ever (Score:5, Funny)
People that go to ivory league schools that live in trailers are a very low population, lets say 1% so since there are 99% of the people living in houses then you can clearly see that people that live in trailers are stupid, when compared to they're counter parts. Or put it this way, any finite number divided by infinity results in a number so small it does not exists. So any people that live in trailers that go to ivory league school you meet in passing are just figments of your imagination. Point is if you like Macintosh use it, if you don't then well don't use it.
Heh. That sure dispels this guy's critique of Apple's benchmarks, eh?
If Apple is capable of this? (Score:2, Funny)
Thank the Lord for SPL's Soapbox (Score:5, Funny)
Those lying fucking bastards. I've never seen that before in my life. Never - I repeat - never, have I seen a product priced at anything less than a perfectly round figure. I'm so glad I read spl's soapbox. I mean, I went to the Apple store, and saw that it was $1999, and I admit it, I said "I could afford this." But thanks to the philanthropy of spl, I was forced to examine it further. If you actually sit down and do the math, $1999 is not, in fact, a thousand dollars and a little more - no, innocent consumer! $1999 is nothing less than a dollar shy of $2000!
Re:whatever (Score:5, Funny)
Hold up (Score:2, Funny)
People, people. Fruits are not faster than Pentiums. Don't believe the hype!
Nope, it's undefined. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:spl=troll (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quite (Score:3, Funny)
You'd rather see kids running around naked, bald, and listening to classical music coming from an apple II?
Re:spl=troll (Score:3, Funny)
Re:turning off features in bios (Score:3, Funny)
I conducted my own test... (Score:4, Funny)
Interesting enough, the Dell system matched the numbers found on the SPEC website, but the G5 was unable to complete the benchmark.
I think that this test, which can be easily duplicated, shows conclusively that Apple's G5 marketing is a complete lie.
Re:Think Different (Score:2, Funny)
As a gay computer user, I find the accusation that I would be caught dead using a Mac to be highly insulting.
What About the Most Important Benchmark? (Score:5, Funny)
-Lucas
Re:Standard Pratice (Score:1, Funny)
The mating call of the not-at-all-endangered urbanis legendoptera.
Re:spl=troll (Score:5, Funny)
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing, I just had a little deja vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: Someone posted about Xerox, and then there was another post that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it, was it the same post?
Neo: Might have been, I'm not sure.
Morpheus: Switch, Apoc.
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: Deja vu is usually a glitch in the Slashcode. It happens when they change something.
Shamelessly stolen from an Anonymous Hero [slashdot.org]
Re:Thank the Lord for SPL's Soapbox (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Design & Speed (Score:3, Funny)
So are they going to call that new chip the "Pentium Pentium"?
get a grip (Score:2, Funny)
EXTRA! EXTRA! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Think Different (Score:3, Funny)
There's a reason for that. I'll let you figure out what it is.
Re:If someone... (Score:2, Funny)
Please send your money to:
Mobutu Seko
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Abuja, Nigeria
Re:Think Different (Score:3, Funny)