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Alienware claims win over Power Mac G5
by Jolex Del Pilar
Monday, November 24, 2003
PCs versus Macs, the age old debate.
Alienware announced today that Alienware PCs have overcome the “world’s fastest personal computers.” Alienware systems outperformed the Power Mac G5 systems in six out of seven head-to-head comparisons, including tests using Adobe Premiere, MP3-encoding, Microsoft Word, and Quake III. Mac World opined, “The PCs beat the Macs soundly.”
The triumph of the Alienware PCs over the Mac G5 systems prompted Mac World to state, “We’re surprised at how thoroughly the PCs clobbered the Macs…” The Mac World benchmarks clearly demonstrate Alienware’s performance dominance and garnered the story a front cover position in the December 2003 issue.
The Aurora raced ahead of the Mac in the Premiere 6 QuickTime rendering and export test, completing the same operation in 37 seconds as compared to the Mac’s 72 seconds, a 94% difference, and completed the MP3 encoding test in almost half the time. The single-CPU Alienware system decisively outscored the dual-CPU G5 by 50 frames per second at 1600 x 1200 resolution in Quake III benchmarks.
--- Jolex Del Pilar |
