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G5 Mess

This whole mess over Apple's claim that the G5 is the fastest desktop computer ever is utterly ridiculous. You have some people saying that they rigged the benchmarks and of course Apple is saying they didn't.

Blah, blah, blah. Every hardware company tests in a way that makes their machines look the best. For christ sake, Apple even had Photoshop stats that made the G4 look faster than the P4, which we all know is bullshit, and there was less of an uproar.

You can never trust a company to give an unbiased statistic, they have marketing departments to make sure that doesn't happen. So take Apple's spec scores with a grain of salt as well as everyone else's and move on.

My point is simply that the G5 is fast. Faster at somethings, slower at others I'm sure, but fucking fast none the less. No one can argue that they have caught up. What I would like to see are some comparisons to the G4 so I can know how much my computer sucks now :-)

I want one.

Or maybe my point was that everybody should just shut-up already, including me.

Not to get too much off topic, but I'm going to be at the Chicago Apple Store opening on friday. The reason for the visit is to pickup my new iSight of course. Here's hoping they have them in stock.