Repost.... bye-bye Apple adverts.....

Apple PowerMac G5
TBWA\London

An advertisement for the new Apple Power Mac G5 claimed it was "the world's
fastest, most powerful personal computer".

Viewers complained that the advertising was misleading because the main
claim was based on the results of limited tests in which the specification
of the computers used was configured to give Apple the best results.

Prior to broadcast, the BACC's independent IT expert raised some concerns,
which the advertiser responded to. The BACC was satisfied with the
advertiser's further substantiation and approved the commercial.

The advertiser provided the ITC with evidence which it claimed showed that
the tests, carried out by an independent third party, were "fair and even".

Due to the technical nature of the advertiser's response, the ITC asked the
BACC to refer the complaints and the response to the BACC's expert. He
found that the claim was not supported by independent reviews and that at
best "the G5 was generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations
currently available".

The ITC considered that there was insufficient evidence to support the claim
"world's fastest, most powerful personal computer". Furthermore, it shared
one viewer's doubt that the claim could be substantiated at all because, as
evidence for and against the claim had shown, computers were constantly
being updated and had many different applications and benchmarks. It
reminded the BACC of the importance to obtain solid evidence for such
absolute claims. It judged that the advertising was misleading and required
that it should not be re-shown in its current form.

(reposted from an email)

SpaceGirl wrote:
Data will always be manipulated.

Nothing new and, like all such claims, stands transparent.

Now do you feel better by your platform of choice?

OpinonMan
Standing by his Mac, none the less.

I could be lame and argue that if Macs ain't the most powerful personal
computers, then PCs *must* be :-D

But I won't :-)

Matt
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I miss Rage Against The Machine.


"SpaceGirl" <NOmirandaSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
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computers, then PCs *must* be :-D

But I won't :-)

Matt
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I miss Rage Against The Machine.


"SpaceGirl" <NOmirandaSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
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in article bopfkv$1gf8v1$1@ID-203300.news.uni-berlin.de, Matt Bostock at
matt@mattbostock.com wrote on 11/10/03 5:57 PM:



Or it could be a "push" and they are equal.

I don't care how fast each platform can run. I think computers these
days are fast enough for the things I'm planning to do for the next 3
years at least.

Yet I do care what the computer can do for me. Stability, Security,
efficient Memory Management and context switching algorithms, state of
art user interface, ability to customize the work environment.

I *LOVE* the UNIX based Mac OS X

Rastin



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"OpinionMan" <whoisthatmaskedman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Maybe they can have a new advert. "The worlds most expensive home computer".
At least it would be accurate

"Kitty" <kitty@white.com> wrote in message
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Perhaps! I've yet to see a like for like comparison. The problem is, the
machines are never matched; they are constantly leapfrogghing each other.

I assume that apple are comparing G5 again P4... which is hardly fare. G5s
are 64bit, P4HTs are 32bit. I've not seen any charts the compare G5s against
64bit Intel or 64bit AMD processors. That would be interesting. Also you
have to keep in mind the OS - for all of Apples boasting, OSX *isn't* a
64bit OS, and wont be until the middle of next year, so the '64bit' power of
the G5 is wasted on general applications. On the other hand Windows XP 64 is
out in Feb. See? It's impossible to compare on anything but an application
level;

Okay so we take that - how fast is say, Photoshop? Not sure if it even
matters any more. I have a dual 3ghz PC at work and everything is instant.
Even blurring I can have ALL my programs open at once (Word, Excel,
PhotoShop, Painter, Dreamweaver) and the machine wont slow down. I cant
imagine *how* it could get faster. I would imagine a G5 mac will be the
same...?

hardly

http://www.go-l.com/store/index.htm


"SpaceGirl" <NOmirandaSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
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LOL

Yes, but you could buy a PC that would play even the most advanced games and
run easily the same speed as a mid-range Mac for less $1000.

"Devin Hughey" <yep@nope.maybe> wrote in message
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I can also buy a pair of knockoff bluejeans that will keep me just as warm
as others for less than $10.

"SpaceGirl" <NOmirandaSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
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Does the same job Who needs to pay the extra £90 for a label?

"Devin Hughey" <yep@nope.maybe> wrote in message
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Hey, I'm with ya on that. I got a $6 t-shirt and $15 jeans on right now.
Nice and cozy.

Just wish I didn't have to go pay $130 on a new pair of sandals.

"SpaceGirl" <NOmirandaSPAM@subhuman.net> wrote in message
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That's just plain boring :-P

Matt
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"Kitty" <kitty@white.com> wrote in message
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