Quick one today, procrastination isn’t good when you have an exam in 3 hours.

Now, people without a Mac can test their websites with Safari, as Apple announced Safari for Windows, along with some announcements about Leopard. This brings more choice to the browser market.

I’m kind of dubious about the following claim,

Safari has always been the fastest browser on the Mac and now it’s the fastest browser on Windows, loading and drawing web pages up to twice as fast as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Mozilla Firefox 2.

They even claim that Opera is much slower to render pages, which I’ve found to be false in my experience.

Steve Jobs quote that I’m also concerned about,

“We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari’s superior browsing experience too.”

“Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes,” because they think it is the only thing they can use with their iPod. iTunes is a horrible and slow application. I can’t use the cover view as it is a pain to browse through and having the covers down the side (a view similar to that from Windows Media Player 11) makes scaling your library a pain as well. If Safari really is faster, which I’ll try after my exam, then I’ll update this here. But for now I see through Steve’s “reality distortion field.”

• Download Safari for Windows (beta)