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Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK
Justen writes "The Independent Television Commission has quietly banned Apple from airing an advertisement (in QuickTime here) for the Power Mac G5 in the UK. The Committee says that, prior to the initial broadcast of the ad, it was critical of the assertion that the Power Mac G5 is "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer." However, Apple supplied what was asserted to be "fair and even" data, based partially on SPEC benchmarks, which "substantiated" Apple's claims and "satisfied" the concerns of their "IT expert." However, the Committee says some "viewers complained that the advertising was misleading," and thus, after an investigation, it reversed its original decision. The Committee has now decided that the ad "should not be re-shown in its current form." Conspiracy theorists take note, Apple's sales in the UK are up 36%, so far, this year."
The claim is that the G5 is the fastest personal computer. It'd dual processor @ 2GHz. Last I checked you couldn't get a personal dual processor system for the x86 platform. I find it hard to believe that for any reasonable work load, a dual processor system wouldn't beat a single proc one.
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Firstly... "a few hundred complaints" - when was the last time you heard of an advert getting "a few hundred" complaints.... a *few hundred* for gods sake. No! There are rarely that many complaints.
Secondly, in the UK there is no such thing as freedom of speech, and there's no such thing as a right to silence.
pedants rule O.K.
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In America, we let people make informed decisions for themselves. In Brittain, the government makes decisions for the people. I guess your government just thinks you are too stupid to think for yourself.
Shut your gob, get off the dole, and get to work, fuckin' Brit!
I now use a 1600mhz G5, yes entry level...
I'd love to see your face when I converted d a mpeg1 to mpeg4 , 80mb file in 70 secs...
Or play Quake 3 beta (altivec beta testing stuff) in 1280*960 at 200 fps...
Or playing a game with no lag, sametime getting a fax and printing it with no problem.
btw this machine is plain 256 mb, I'll post again when I move to gigabyte levels.
I now believe Mhz is really, really a big lie...
I now realize you are a total wanker...do you even comprehend the nature of my post?
/. -- why do you care what I spend on myself? What part of that threatens you? Do I hold it over your head? I didn't think so.
I am not debating the claims of performance, I am commenting on the ridiculous nature of British advertising oversight. If you could get that horse dick you call open/free whatever-it-is-you-champion, out of your ass you fucking worthless twat, maybe you could think straight instead of endlessly spouting off your fucking dribble.
Your ideas regarding 'propreietary vs. open' anything are meaningless in the face of your attempts to defend them. You have never once supported your choices with anything other than reactionary, "at least it's not expensive MS/Apple propreitary crap"...I think you are a total poseur...you don't know *nix from your dick, you jerk-off.
I am a big fan of open-source OS and software. I often set up Linux solutions for friends and associates with old PCs and limited funds. I also have enough money to treat myself, so I know when to use closed-source solutions. If you are so incapable of rationally seeing the merits of both, and of seeing the differences between MS and Apple, then you are simply thick and blindly dogmatic. I never have to defend my purchases except on
And regarding performance, I am not sequencing the genome or running BLAST , but those sure seem like impressive real-world performance figures. But of course, you'll just assume they faked the whole genome sequencing thing -- you probably don't believe in evolution as well.
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