Written by This absolutely is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while:
Hmm, so let me see, that chart says that the software that’s available for the PC only supports playback of 5 streams. The Mac software supports 7 streams. Uh, what’s the point of mentioning the CPUs involved on the two setups? And their GHz numbers? Lies, damned lies, and Apple benchmarks.
I was also amused by this rather stupid chart. At least the picked the the infamous PC that HP hyped as being able to support up to 12GB of RAM, and then in the fine print says “Microsoft Windows supports up to 4GB of memory”
The other rather mornic chart that I like was this one:
http://a992.g.akamai.net/7/992/51/b78bde599bed9b/www.apple.com/shake/images/indexg5vsxeon11182003.gif
Figuring Shake dosen’t even run on the Windows anymore (since v2). The only thing I could think of would be to benchmark it against linux (which is supported), but I highly doubt that….
The first thing I thought when I saw these graphs: “Who the f*** wants to play seven (or even five) video streams on his box simultaneously? I already have problems following two news sources (like reading a newspaper while watching TV) at once…”