<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Apr 8, 2006, at 3:06 PM, rob morris wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Oh well, most of us do not run those projects. So for what we run which is </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">what recent tests have shown, both OS on a mac smoke the PC boxes.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>With how much voltage applied to the Reality Distortion Field Generator?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you're referring to this "<A href="http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/03/21/8212.aspx">test</A>" that somebody else pointed out as "definitive proof":</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0025DD"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"></SPAN></FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Looks to me like the MacTel Core Duo got its butt kicked across the board on Windows Media Encoding, and was within one second of a comparable Acer portable equipped with a <B><I>slower clocked processor</I></B> on the Photoshop scripts.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On one-off benchmarks done at different times, different locations, running different configurations, and only three tests done on the Macs.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Then a Mac fanboy site - MacNN - picked up on <B><I>one</I></B> number on the Mac that was higher than the only comparable PC in the test battery, that happens to have slower clock, and pasted it all over the internet. Suddenly Macs are smoking PC's? More like Mac fanboys smoking crack.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Whatever Chris. Sorry.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Again, no need to apologize. Perhaps you just need to update your information.<DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>