Not much difference?

Sobering said:

Hey guys. My new iMac (see signature) just arrived. I'm not really noticing much difference in speed from my Core Duo Intel iMac. What do you guys think?

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Because the Core 2 Duos aren't that much faster. It was all a load of hype about not that much...

It was never hyped to be more than a little faster per GHz. It IS faster, but not by a lot.

What WAS hyped is 64-bit for future flexibility (not much use for 64-bit now), and that is true. You do have that

Benchmarks are showing around a 10% increase in speed. That's only going to be noticeable on long processes like rendering, iTunes conversion, etc. Even then it's not a huge difference. The average person isn't going to notice a difference in speed between the Core Duo iMacs and the current Core 2 Duo iMacs.