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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (18144)	9/17/1998 11:11:00 AM
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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report) says Apple used a special version of ByteMark benchmark tester, optimized for G3, and, in the other hand, an outdated version for the Celeron, used some time ago for the 486 processor, which is not really the best thing to test the Celeron with!"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.