[X4U] Interesting spin on Intel Inside

[Nick Scalise]

> From: net kat <netkat at comcast.net>
> 
> most folks here can prbly still hear in their minds the glowing terms  
> used to describe the G5 unveiled in 03...
> how it was the fastest, most powerful desktop computer in the  
> universe, or something like that.
> 
> now, on day 1 of intel-based Macs, they're using verbage like "twice  
> as fast as before."
> 
> having worked in advertising, I'm quite familiar with license taken  
> with descriptive language, but JEEPERS, that's some 180!
> 
> (BTW, I am not at all sad to see the coming of  Intel macs, esp. if  
> they are really faster, and less power-hungry)

Yet in '03 the fastest G5 was 2.0 Ghz and the G5 is now 2.5Ghz.

I don't see that Apple claiming a newer chip is faster is a 180 turn around. It's what they always do (it's what any computer company does). They got new chip, it's faster, they say so.

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Nick Scalise
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