{"id":222,"date":"2004-08-31T14:21:01","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T19:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=222"},"modified":"2004-08-31T14:21:01","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T19:21:01","slug":"its-like-a-chart-only-without-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/222","title":{"rendered":"It’s like a chart, only without the data"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Apple announced a new G5-based imac, with the disappointing detail that it contains an 18 month old graphics card<\/a>. (The graphics industry has 6 month product cycles, so this translates to roughly 3 versions out of date).<\/p>\n

Their ad copy claims otherwise of course:<\/p>\n

It?s a combination that delivers unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance and an immersive, photorealistic gaming experience with three times the frame rate of previous-generation processors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so of course they have a graphic to prove their point:<\/p>\n

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This is probably the worst graphic I’ve ever seen. It looks like it contains information — it’s got system specs and even a benchmark resolution — but that’s just a smokescreen. The graphic is relative, and doesn’t tell you if “baseline” is 60 frames per second or 6.<\/p>\n

Apple can get away with this sort of manipulation because its customers tend to be insulated from the rest of the PC industry. The FX5200 is actually an “entry<\/a> level”<\/a> version versus its cousins the 5700 and 5900, and has been surpassed by the next-generation 6800 series. If Apple were to post actual framerates it would not compare so well to the x86 world, so they keep everything within their own universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Apple announced a new G5-based imac, with the disappointing detail that it contains an 18 month old graphics card. (The graphics industry has 6 month product cycles, so this translates to roughly 3 versions out of date). Their ad copy claims otherwise of course: It?s a combination that delivers unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics … Continue reading “It’s like a chart, only without the data”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}