> In the video, a demonstrator from RIM’s Web browser development group shows the comparatively petite PlayBook and the iPad side by side, caches cleared and connected to WiFi. He loads a couple of websites simultaneously on the devices, and the PlayBook completes the load first by a large margin, beating the iPad soundly.
via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/11/rim-shows-off-playbook-administering-web-beatdown-to-ipad.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)
Videos like this remind me of how pathetic Apple used to look doing its famous “Photoshop shootout” contests on stage. They’d pit the “latest” Intel PC running Windows against the new PowerMac of the day to demonstrate that Apple’s machine could perform a series of controlled scripts a few seconds faster. Of course, that was several years ago, when processing speed was the only thing that mattered to people, and the most important product in Apple’s lineup was the PowerMac.
And it was still pathetic.
The idea that RIM thinks this is going to matter in 2010 is absurd. Here’s some advice, RIM: Ship your PlayBook, and then we’ll see how fast it is in the real world, when you’re not picking the sites to load in your own little controlled experiment. And then maybe five or six people will care.
