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Apple: World's Fastest?Not very likely, and here's why.Brad Grimes
Brad Grimes is a former PC World executive editor.
Let's kick this off with a little full disclosure: I own an IBM- compatible PC. It's my fifth IBM-compatible PC. I've never owned an Apple computer, although I've used many of them, including the 64- bit Power Mac G5.
Still, I can tell you, without a hint of bias, that the Apple Power Mac G5 is not "the world's fastest personal computer," as Apple has claimed in its advertising.
Or maybe it is. Or maybe it's not.
Frankly, I don't know for sure how fast the Power Mac G5 is. I only know from experience that it's wicked fast.
But people who know a lot better than I jumped on Apple's back when it began claiming to sell "the world's fastest personal computer" last year. Their gripe? That the tests on which Apple based its claims weren't fair. And frankly, those experts were right, if only because Apple tested its Power Mac G5 against Dell PCs (more full disclosure--I own two Dells), without regard for the fact that the world's fastest personal computer might actually be a Gateway, or an IBM, or even an Alienware Aurora...