The Megahertz Myth

At 2.4 GHz it took my old Dell Dimension 4600 w/2.4 GHz Pentium 4 over 5 minutes to download and processor 1 SONG! And some people think the Pentium 4 is the best processor out there. The only good Pentium 4s were the Northwood-based ones. Besides, it never reached 10 GHz, only 3.8 GHz. The Athlon XP usually outperformed it. Athlon 64 X2 outperformed the shitty Pentium D. My Pentium Dual-Core laptop can outperform some desktop Pentium Ds. In sort: the NetBurst microarchitecture sucked.

notice the neva showed the clock speed at twice tho. if they showed the p4 running twice as fast (approx) it wouldnt have fallen so far behind.

Forget it...

They use Intel processors for three main reasons:

1. During the intro of the Power Mac G5, Steve Jobs promised that the PowerPC G5 would reach 3 GHz within 1 year. But two years later, the PowerPC G5 still didn't reach that clock speed.

2. IBM could not keep the heat intensity and power consumption of the PowerPC G5 low enough for them to be used the iBooks or PowerBooks.

3. The Intel processors would offer 70 units of performance per watt while the IBM PowerPC only offered 15.

»And it would take years for Apple to recompile all their code to AMD.«

Ummm, no.

Pentium 4 sucks!!! It always did!!! the Pentium III was better than that piece of shit

NETBURST FTW! ATHLON BOOO! Dell and many retail didn't sell any computers with Athlon a reason: they sucked, sure they were a lot cooler and sustain a higher temperature, also their multiplicator could be changed after application with pencil, but who cares? REAL GHZ count! With the P4 technology up to 10 GHZ!!! The longer the pipelines the better! And after P4 there is an even brighter future awaiting us: the revolutionary Itanium technology!!!1

Are you serious? Because I wasn't... >_>

Flash is AWFUL on the PowerPC Macs.
It's like Adobe coded it with blindfolds for a bet while they were at the bar, drunk.