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"This thing is incredible," Jobs said. "It's the first supercomputer on a chip.... We think it's going to set the industry on fire."

"The G4 chip is nearly three times faster than the fastest Pentium III"

- Steve Jobs (1999) [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/08/lavish-debut-for-apples-g4/



Thats cool, but literally last millennium.

And again, the guy has been dead for the better part of this millennium.

What have they shown of any product currently on the market, especially when backed with any concrete claim, that has been proven untrue-

EDIT: After reading your article and this one: https://lowendmac.com/2006/twice-as-fast-did-apple-lie-or-ju... it looks like it was true in floating point workloads.


The G4 was a really good chip if you used photoshop. It took intel awhile to catch up.




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