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Apple gets Windows support?
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 BAPCo.,
Windows benchmarking consortium, announced that Apple Computer is now
among its ranks. For those who are not familiar with BAPCo, it is the
same group that produced the SYSmark 2004SE and MobileMark benchmark
suites we use at PC Magazine; yes, the same ones that are being used as
performance tests by media outlets, corporations and government
agencies worldwide. BAPCo is also behind WEBmarkÂ’s webserver test.
AMD,
Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Transmeta, ATI, nVidia, Toshiba, Seagate, Ziff
Davis Media, CNET, HP, VNU, Atheros, and ARCintuition are among the
frontliners of BAPCo. These companies are the ones who brainstormed and
authored industry-standard programs like Microsoft Office, Adobe
Creative Suite and 3ds max.
This is great news because
users worldwide can start to expect the best from both OS worlds since
Apple is now open to Window-based performance testing. Window drivers
for Intel Macs such as iMac, Mac mini and Mac Book Pro with Intel Core
Duo processors is now a possibility. Aside from VISTA, this is probably
one of the best thing to look out for in computer evolution (add to
that the possibility that VISTA may take longer than “World Peace” to
arrive).
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