Claims

06:00 - Wednesday 17 March 2004 by Humphrey Cheung
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: too, good, to, be, true

Claims

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I found some very outlandish claims and specifications on both the desktop and laptop systems. Here is screenshot of the desktop specifications


Desktop specifications

There are two glaring mistakes here.

There is no AMD FX-51 3400+ Currently, there are no 500GB internal desktop hard drives. The only 500 GB drives are external firewire/USB2.0 drives, such as the ones made by LaCie.

Here is a look at Michael's desktop benchmark claims. You can clearly see the logos from Sharky Extreme and Maximum PC. More on that later.


Desktop benchmark claims.

By now, you can see that there is something seriously wrong. Let's take a closer look.

A 3DMark2003 score of 17,894 is not currently possible. The highest score so far is 10008 with an extremely overclocked Pentium 4 CPU and ATI 9800 XT video card. Boot time of 7.7 seconds. Windows machines coming out of hibernation don't boot this fast. Maybe Michael is caching everything in non-volatile ram? .11-db noise rating is really pushing reality. According to How Stuff Works , total silence is 0 db and a whisper is 15 db. I really want to know what kind of cooling fans Michael is using in his computers.

Let's see if the laptop specifications are any better.


Laptop specifications

The pattern of incredulity continues

The AMD FX-51 3400+ does not exist. Weight of 4.75 lbs.... maybe without the hard drive and battery. Windows XP 2004 does not exist.

The laptop benchmark claims aren't any better.... Once again, notice the Sharky and Maximum PC logos.


Laptop benchmark claims

I wont go into the laptop benchmark claims, because they are a rehash of what we saw in the desktop claims.


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