Benchmarker banned from the Apple Store? Not exactly...

After years of doing hardware benchmark tests, hosting classes, and garnering a bit of local celebrity at San Diego's Fashion Valley Apple Store, Robety Morgan is no longer allowed to do his thing.  Apple has enacted a new corporate policy that bans Morgan from doing hardware benchmark tests at Apple Stores store after latest results show that the new iMac G5 isn't quite as fast as Apple is claiming. Apple claims the G5 iMac is 3 times faster than the previous iMac G4, and when Morgan ran tests on the new machine, he didn't come up with the same results.  As for his testing methods, we're not completely convinced – Morgan likes to use 3D games to do his benchmarking, and Macs really aren't gaming machines, per se. Moral of the story? Rather than turn this into a firestorm of bad publicity, Apple has promised to gave him a G5 iMac to test on his own turf—see how it all works out in the end?