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The Register Finds Fault In Turion Benchmark Setup
An anonymous reader submits "From The Register, it appears that AMD has joined Intel, ATI, nVidia, and just about every other hardware manufacturer on the planet in benchmark fiddling. The benchmarks for the Turion appear to have been compared using quite different systems - a 35 watt Turion 64 with an ATI GPU versus a 25 watt Pentium M with an Intel integrated graphics processor. Sadly, it appears the original benchmarks were too good to be true."
Adobe will convert them. Next time google before you beg.
Acrobat Reader is the culprit, not the file format.
OS X's preview app loads PDF's up as fast as the Notepad app loads up text files in Windows.
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
Never used a Mac OS X computer then, have you. PDF renders like lightning. Searching them is wicked fast too!
" Acrobat Reader is the culprit"
Which is why I'm still on 5.0. Seems to be about 3X faster than the latest bloated slug of a program that Adobe released.
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
Yeah, but then you have Safari rabbit droppings all over the desktop which have to be deleted manually, it's a pain in the ass to resize the Preview window to make the text legible every time, not to mention scrolling through the text or finding anything. Also, I think the kid in the Preview icon is butt-ugly, to be honest. I don't like having to stare at his mug both on the task-bar and miniaturized in the rabbit dropping icons.
There simply is no reason to use PDF for this sort of thing.
With great power comes great fan noise.