Re: for the speed daemons

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From: Bruce Satow (satow@ssl.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 14:48:06 PST

If I primarily did DV as a career, I would want to know this
information...

Ian Crew wrote:
>
> As with all so-called "comparisons" this test is pretty highly
> biased. If you select your programs and tasks carefully, you can make
> just about any manufacturer's product appear to be the "fastest".
> All manufacturers (and their partisans) do this--doesn't matter if
> it's Mac vs. PC, DB2 vs. Oracle, or whatever.
>
> The funny thing is that people still seem to care about this sort of
> thing (it obviously sells magazines, or the journalists would stop
> writing them). Why is beyond me.
>
> BTW, If you want to see what the Mac bigots say in response to this
> PC bigot see <http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17351>--it's really
> kind of funny how worked up people get over this....
>
> Ian
>
> At 2:12 PM -0800 11/15/02, Rusty Wright wrote:
> > http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/11_nov/reviews/cw_macvspciii.htm
> >
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