PC Magazine "Fibbed" in Article on G5/Dell Comparo?

Apple can not shake myths because even respected publications too often repeat them. Take, for example, the PC Mag article that favorably compared the new Dual 2-GHz Power Mac G5 with a Dell Precision 650 Workstation (dual 3.06 GHz Xeon CPUs). The article used a BTO-configured G5 costing $4349 (an ATI 9800 Pro graphics card and an additional 1.5 GB PC3200 RAM were added) and states in part "... comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation...."

Similarly priced? Give us a break! According to our visit to the Dell web site, the similarly configured Dell 650 (dual 3.06 GHz 1 MB L3 cache processors, 2 GB PC2100 memory, a 120 GB HD and an equivalent DVD-RW drive) costs $5,884 and even then it only includes slower PC2100 RAM and a smaller 120 GB hard drive. The "similar" Dell is over $1500 more expensive! An accurate statement by the PC Mag article would have been "... comparing the results with a similarly configured (but much more expensive) Dell Precision 650 Workstation...." Come on PC Mag--tell the truth!!! [Dana Baggett]