estherau posted at 9:23PM Fri, 04 March 2016 - #4259337

Well I have seen lots of articles in mac magazines that says processor speeds aren't comparable. Actually i don't know if it is the OS or due to the hardware configuration or the combination of both but when you just look at processor speed you aren't comparing apples to apples haha excuse the pun. It's a commonly held belief by PC users that they think the mac processor speed means the same thing when in fact it doesn't. Love esther

If they are using the same processors, the speeds are comparable - a westmere is a westmere is a westmere - It is different when comparing architectures - when comparing a 3.0Ghz Cloverleaf against a 2,93Ghz Nehalem they are different - the Nehalem is faster architecture.