Seems Fair Enough (Score 1)

It's good that Apple have responded quickly to the issues raised by the SPEC's. To be honest, they have gone out on a limb releasing SPECâ(TM)s that are a common yardstick in the Intel/AMD world and not so common for Apple's or their consumers. They are opening themselves up for judgement by the same rule as any other machine, which would not have been possible with the G4 as it had laughable SPEC scores. As they have released all the documentation and it was done by a third party, I'm inclined to believe that the results are ~accurate. The bickering over the use of GCC as the compiler for the benchmarks is pointless really. If Apple wanted to max their SPEC's and create tight code, they could have used IBM's proprietary compiler, which is just as highly tuned for the PPC (32/64) as Intel's is for x86. GCC uses the same codebase⦠Itâ(TM)s Apples to Apples, eh.