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Originally posted by bermuDa
too bad Apple has to manipulate their numbers to beat out PC platforms, and ommitted Opterons from their tests cause even with the special fast malloc library they ran on the G5 (and not the PCs) they couldn't come close to the Opteron results.
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Those more educated on the subject know that Apple has already answered to the issues brought up in the link in this post. You can read more at
this link at Slashdot.
There are hundreds of ways to do benchmarks and hundreds of minor changes which can be made to affect the outcome. Most companies try to show off the functions in which their machine performs the best (duh). I do not pretend to know enough about every element of the inner workings of a processor to judge the accuracy of any of these reports, but I also don't just take the word of the manufacturer as my only guide in making a purchasing decision. Making an informed choice requires doing a fair amount of research to educate yourself... a skill lil' bermie clearly does not have.