My thoughts

Omega65 said
I think when the G4's arrived AMD had already intro' the Athlon Tbird 1000-1400 series. Notice how Apple NEVER compares their machine to a Athlon setup.

That might be because, like it or not, AMD is perceived by many as the budget alternative to Intel. We all know that less expensive does not mean inferior, but your average clueless computer shopper is likely to assume that Intel is better, else why would it cost so much more.

For Apple to compare their Mac's to AMD would be a no-win situation for them in the eyes of the general public.

If they beat AMD, the ignorant masses would just shrug and say "so what". If they lost, it would ruin whatever prestige Apple has left.

On a side note, I attended a Physicians dinner last Saturday night which featured several lengthy video and slideshow presentations run off of two Mac notebooks. The owners of the notebooks kept fritzing around with the settings, trying to get everything to look good. Anyone who still believes that Macs are idiot-proof should have seen it.

The vids were pretty cool, though.


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