"Those more educated on the subject" oooh such passive aggressiveness
and "lil bermie"? how patronizing.
it's true that manufacturers prefer to release benchmark results that favor their products... but...
Quote:
from my previous link
Apple also claims that the G5 is the world's first PC with a 64-bit processor (the exact claim is, "The Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest personal computer and the first with a 64-bit processor").
However, according to AMD's 22 April 2003 press release, AMD introduced the AMD Opteron processor, which is a 64-bit processor. That is 2 months earlier than Apple's announcement of the G5.
Also, the Sun SPARC computers, which have been around for years, had 64-bit processors, although Apple would say that they are not "personal computers", despite the fact that you can buy an old one very cheaply. The DEC Alpha processors were also 64-bit. Thank you to the readers that pointed this out to me.
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My opinion of Apple remains unscathed, I doubt any amount of research would change that.
//edit: if you read the whole article I linked you might see the author actually acknowledges Joswiak's response to the accusations of deception, and rips it apart point by point.