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Apple told to halt 'world's fastest' claims for G5
ZDNet ^
| March 26, 2004
| Ed Fraunheim
Posted on 03/26/2004 5:51:56 PM PST by Leroy S. Mort
The Council of Better Business Bureaus has recommended that Apple Computer discontinue comparative performance claims regarding its Power Mac G5 desktop.
Acting on a tip from Apple rival Dell, the council's National Advertising Division (NAD) "determined that the evidence provided by Apple did not provide a reasonable basis for its broad unqualified claims that its Power Mac G5 is 'the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer' and that it 'edged out the competition on integer.'"
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Technical
KEYWORDS: apple; bbb; dell; g5worldsfastestpc; jobs; lowqualitycrap; macuser; nad
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iLied....
To: Leroy S. Mort
sMACked down
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posted on
03/26/2004 5:54:59 PM PST
by
kdot
To: Leroy S. Mort
No wonder Microsoft gets away with outrageous product claims all the time... their few remaining competitors are too frightened to complain!
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posted on
03/26/2004 5:59:09 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Voting Bush because there is no reasonable alternative)
To: Leroy S. Mort
iLied! Now that's a Mac Classic! (groan!) ; )
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:00:21 PM PST
by
Vesuvian
(Quattro Power!)
To: Vesuvian
...with Special Sauce...
To: Swordmaker
The green-eyed monster rears it's ugly head in the ranks of the Wintel plug-and-pray crowd.
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:02:57 PM PST
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: Leroy S. Mort
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:04:47 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Kerry went to Vietnam...yadda yadda yadda...he should be President...)
To: Petronski
Every now and then, I like to stir the ant hill.....
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Leroy S. Mort
My sister is a bona fide arachnophobe. Your graphic is saved for future use. ;O)
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:13:43 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Kerry went to Vietnam...yadda yadda yadda...he should be President...)
To: Constructionist
The very best computer I have ever owned is a second-hand IBM Thinkpad, circa 1999, which is about seven pounds but is also a phreak of engineering genius, top to bottom. Given what they could do at the time, them boyz did it all.
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:15:09 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Kerry went to Vietnam...yadda yadda yadda...he should be President...)
To: Petronski
Pray she's far sighted. Those aren't arachnids. ;-)
To: Leroy S. Mort
Those aren't arachnids. ;-)Sorry, I'm a liberal arts major and just a little bit 'in the sauce.'
What do you mean?
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:17:27 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Kerry went to Vietnam...yadda yadda yadda...he should be President...)
To: Constructionist
Fool Proof Virus Protection for Windows Users:
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:18:40 PM PST
by
mass55th
To: Petronski
a·rach·nid
n.
"Any of various arthropods of the class Arachnida, such as spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks, characterized by four pairs of segmented legs and a body that is divided into two regions, the cephalothorax and the abdomen. Also called arachnoid."
To: Petronski
The very best computer I have ever owned is a second-hand IBM Thinkpad, circa 1999, which is about seven pounds but is also a phreak of engineering genius, top to bottom. Given what they could do at the time, them boyz did it all. I still have a thinkpad 770 with 128M, mpeg-card, and dvd. It's my favorite door-stop. When the nukes come, it and the cockroaches will be all that is left.
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:23:55 PM PST
by
spodefly
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: Petronski
They don't have 8 legs.
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:25:23 PM PST
by
spodefly
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: quidnunc
The green-eyed monster rears it's ugly head in the ranks of the Wintel plug-and-pray crowd. Why would anyone be envious of a Mac? Lets see... everything costs more, it does less, and is no where near as customizable.. yup I'm really envious.
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:26:42 PM PST
by
battousai
(Islamic terrorists are like cancer... can you negotiate with Cancer?)
To: spodefly
Mine's a 390e, and just today I added a DVD drive. Once I got it going (16bit color, not 24bit!?!), I just stared slackjawed. Amazing that only a year after the 4.7gig DVD standard was finalized, IBM had a portable solution. Speakers suck, but this application is intended for headphones anyway, and they rock.
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:27:17 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Kerry went to Vietnam...yadda yadda yadda...he should be President...)
To: spodefly
I still have a thinkpad 770 with 128M, mpeg-card, and dvd. It's my favorite door-stop. When the nukes come, it and the cockroaches will be all that is left.Well either that or the older IBM PS/2 tower machines, those were built like tanks, many years ago I saw one that was run over by a car and still kept working!
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posted on
03/26/2004 6:31:35 PM PST
by
battousai
(Islamic terrorists are like cancer... can you negotiate with Cancer?)
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