On Those iMac Benchmarks

I’ve been mostly ignoring the uproar about how Steve Jobs “lied” about how much faster the Intel iMac is opposed to the G5 iMac. Expecting benchmarks to reflect any form of reality is just plain ignorant of the complexities of modern computing.

Despite thing, there’s a great irony which has just dawned on me. If Steve Jobs is clearly lying about how much faster the Intel iMac is over the G5 iMac, then clearly he wasn’t lying when he was pushing the G5 chip and pointing out how fast it is compared to those crappy Intel chips. You remember those old photoshop bake-offs that everyone mocked right?

It appears to me, the incessant Apple bashers are somewhat snookered. Then again, with Apple switching to Intel, the Apple fanboys who have spent so much time arguing for the G5 are just as snookered.

With both camps now proven wrong, couldn’t we all just get along?