Geekbench on YouTube

This is interesting (and unexpected); people are filming their computers running benchmarks (like, oh, Geekbench) and posting the videos to YouTube.

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Most are the videos are shot by people claiming that Windows is better than Mac OS X (or that Mac OS X is better than Windows), and that their Geekbench results back up their claim. I’m not surprised by this; platform debates are an incredibly popular (and passionate) pastime for a lot of people and Geekbench, being cross-platform, can certainly provide performance data that can be used to support claims that one platform is faster (and thus better) than another platform.

I just wish these video comparisons were better. While some of them are pretty good, a lot of them are rather suspect; some compare apples to oranges, while others seem to cripple one platform to favor another.


 
John Poole is the founder of Primate Labs.