“A little bit more than a month ago, AnandTech published ‘No
more mysteries: Apple’s G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux’ with
the ambitious goal of finding out how the Apple platform compares,
performance-wise, to the x86 PC platform. The objective was to find
out how much faster or slower the Apple machines were compared to
their PC alternatives in a variety of server and workstation
applications.“Some of the results were very surprising and caught the
attention of millions of AnandTech readers…”