Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Apple, Microsoft
Apple joins Windows benchmarking group
by Jordan Running Mar 29th 2006
In what seems like an odd move at first blush, Apple has joined BAPCo, an industry consortium that's in
the business of Windows benchmarking. It seems less odd, however, when one considers recent unconfirmed rumors that
Apple is working on virtualization software akin to VMWare that would allow Mac owners to run Windows on their Macs
simultaneously with OS X (i.e. without rebooting). Gearlog, however, says that BAPCo's benchmarking suites SYSmark and
MobileMark don't perform well under virtualization and that it's more likely we're talking about Windows running natively on Apple's
Intel hardware.[Via Engadget, image from OnMac.net Wiki]
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