I hope everybody realizes that we are talking about 2 significantly different processors here. A Pentium is a cisc processor. The Mac is a Risc processor. The mac is a real number cruncher and can do certain things much faster than a pentium at the same clockspeed. The pentium uses advanced systems like SSE and SSE2 to speed things up. There is a significantly different philosofy behind the pentium than the Mac. AMD chips are again differnt. They have cisc input, but they convert it to work with the core of the processor wich is actually a risc core. The conversion seems to be efficient enough to make this interesting structure faster at a lower clockspeed than the pentium. A 1,5 GHz athlon palomino is definitely much faster than a 1,5 GHz Pentium 4. The fastest Pentium/AMD systems are still faster than mac systems, but if you could use a G4 at 2 GHz like a pentium 4 can easily do these days it's definitely going to beat all AMD's and Pentiums available at this moment on all fields.

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