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Yes, the average user doesn't care. However, if we can be clear on how it all works than we can speak in common terms. As it is, there is no real day at the track. Each company does it's own testing with whichever Apps they know run best on THEIR hardware. I want to settle the curiosity of those who DO know what it all means because, much as I hate saying this: This IS a society with several Intelectual Ellites. One of those Elite groups is Geeks. If WE have no real comparisons, how can we expect to have ANY authority when answering questions from those who rely on US. We need to take responsability for our place as Authorities on Information Technology. The only way to get that clarity is to test systems with the closest thing we can find to a universal OS (Linux) and run EXACTLY THE SAME tests, of several differing types to determine performance. The systems should be set up with similar (identical where possible) configs and run for several benchmarks. We should work out some "handicaps" to compensate for DDR and the like to isolate components for break-out comparisons of parts with "stock" configs in similar price-points as control groups.
