Dennis
When I speak of speed I am talking that the fastest Mac out there runs at 1.4 Ghz and that is a desk top. Sony has lap tops that are pushing 2.4 Ghz 512 ram 40 GB HD DVDRW CDDRW and of course windoz this for $1800.00
Geoff, you been mislead by all the "processor speed" hype and are comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended.) Of course the Intel chips have a faster processor speed than the PPC chips: the higher speed is required so that they can complete the "job" in about the same amount of time that a PPC chip does it. The reason is that the PPC chip is RISC and the Intel chip is CISC. A RISC chip requires fewer steps to complete a task than does a CISC chip. I saw a pictorial diagram of this in a magazine recently, but I can't remember which one. Smart Computing, maybe. From what I've read and heard, the ratio is somewhere around 1:1.5 to 1:2 so that the 2.4 GHz Intel chip is roughly equivalent to a 1.2 - 1.6 GHz PPC chip. Of course comparisons between different generations would be way off. Comparing a Pentium IV (886) with a PPC 601 is as unfair as comparing a PPC G4 with a Pentium (586).
So, if a high processor speed number is your main goal, get a PC and just change the processor out every generation (approx 15 months nowadays); I personally don't care about the difference in processor speed.
Oh, BTW, IIRC, don't the current desktop Macs have TWO 1.4 GHz G4s? If so, you'd have to get almost a 5 GHz Intel chip.
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Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
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