Mac vs. PC, 2003 Edition: Apple's G5 benchmarks are false
WinInfo | at | by Mike
During his keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2003 in San Francisco earlier this week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the excitable audience that the company's new PowerMac G5 systems--due in August--would not just match but surpass the performance of similarly equipped high-end Pentium 4 and XEON-based PCs from companies such as Dell. "We are delivering today the world's fastest personal computer," Jobs said of the G5 during the keynote, though the systems won't ship for two months. Apple has made similar performance claims over the years, but it has always relied on rather spurious evidence, such as hand-picked benchmarks that highlighted specific strengths of the PowerPC platform. However, this time, Jobs touted a number of so-called industry standard benchmarks from Veritest which reputedly backed up Apple's claims. Has the Mac really surpassed the PC, after years of lagging behind?
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