A look back at Apple's PowerPC propaganda

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:09 am

http://web.archive.org/web/199804291404 ... bunny.html

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:11 am

Black is white and white is black. Have another sip of the kool-aid that spews from Uncle Steve!

jsusanka · Post by **jsusanka** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:44 am

I like the physics part in there.

using another quote from jfk - in a physics lab they can make an elephant dangle from a cliff by hanging onto a daisy with it's tail.

koolaid is strong today

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:03 am

The PowerPC chips were pretty nice, but if they were that great Apple wouldn't have had to pay for fake benchmarks to prove the G5s were the fastest PCs in the world. They used specially tweaked libraries and such and ran tests against Intel systems specially configured to run slow.

I guess it's over now, since they don't even support their own claims that Power is better.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:58 am

I guess PPC wasn't faster after all

I look forward to seing AMD's dual core chips with DDR2 memory, and oh boy I wan't a dual Opteron workstation!

Post by **Patrick** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:08 am

The lastest claims of a massive speed bump (2X-3X) over the old PPC chips have been exaggerated:
http://www.macworld.com/2006/01/feature ... /index.php

Gotta love how Apple (and others) skew the numbers in their favor.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:56 am

Patrick wrote:Gotta love how Apple (and others) skew the numbers in their favor.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time, and come on, are you surprised? Microsoft has been doing that for a while now with their "Get The Facts" propaganda.

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A look back at Apple's PowerPC propaganda

A look back at Apple's PowerPC propaganda

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