Alienware Area-51 outperforms Apple G5

Alienware is claiming that their PCs have overcome the “world’s fastest personal computers”, the Apple G5.

Alienware systems outperformed the Power Mac G5 systems in six out of seven head-to-head comparisons, including tests using Adobe Premiere, MP3-encoding, Microsoft Word, and Quake III. Mac Worldopined, “The PCs beat the Macs soundly.”

The triumph of the Alienware PCs over the Mac G5 systems prompted Mac World to state, “We’re surprised at how thoroughly the PCs clobbered the Macs…” The Mac World benchmarks clearly demonstrateAlienware’s performance dominance and garnered the story a front cover position in the December 2003 issue.

The Aurora raced ahead of the Mac in the Premiere 6 QuickTime rendering and export test, completing the same operation in 37 seconds as compared to the Mac’s 72 seconds, a 94% difference, andcompleted the MP3 encoding test in almost half the time. The single-CPU Alienware system decisively outscored the dual-CPU G5 by 50 frames per second at 1600 x 1200 resolution in Quake IIIbenchmarks.

“Alienware’s history of cutting-edge performance is well established,” said Kevin Wasielewski, vice president of marketing for Alienware Corporation. “In combination with design innovation,outstanding reliability, and unprecedented customer service, performance leadership is a trademark of Alienware systems.”

Alienware has received numerous awards from leading industry publications such as Maximum PC, PC World, CNet, Computer Shopper, PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World, Computer Games Magazine, and manymore. With the addition of the Mac World roundtable recognition, Alienware reaffirms its position as the industry’s performance leader.