From MacCentral:
French mag says Apple misled with BYTE scores
maccentral.com
We've all seen the toasted bunny, and snail Pentium II advertisements.
There have also been several on-stage presentations, showing that
Macs are significantly faster for most computer tasks. However, one
French technology publication called "MarcBook bulletin
d'informations Pc-Windows" is challenging Apple's claims.
Fernando Martinho, the MacCentral reader who alerted us to this
article, says "Basically, (the report) says Apple used a special version of
ByteMark benchmark tester, optimized for G3, and, in the other hand,
an outdated version for the Celeron, used some time ago for the 486
processor, which is not really the best thing to test the Celeron with!"
Among the claims made in the report are that in a suite of 30
applications tested (including Photoshop, Claris Works, Word, Excel,
FileMaker Pro and Quake), 90% of the operations were faster on a
Celeron machine from Dell.
We're awaiting comment from Apple about the claims made in the
MarcBook. |
