MHz Obession is unhealthy....
I find it amusing that so many people are, here of all places, are completely obsessed with MHz... Very funny. I look at it like this:
Which would be more efficient at getting work done?
Emptying a pool, 1 bucket at a time, but do the buckets very fast? Or emptying a pool, 1 40-gallon drum at a time, but done slightly slower.
Obviously, the drum will empty the pool faster. A well designed 64-bit CPU at a lower speed will do much better than anything Intel has for the desktop *or* server arena.
AMD and Apple really need to team up and come up with a meaningful speed rating (not AMD's PR "QuantiSpeed" bull...). I can't remember the name of the thingee, but there was a processor I recall hearing about that ran at 100MHz, but was inexpensive and massively parallel, and went really *really* fast.
I think, in the end, Apple would do well to even *reduce* clock speeds if possible. Don't even *try* to compete on that basis. Maybe even put out promo literature that refers to P4s as incredibly expensive EZBake Ovens... If they note "real world" performance specs, not stuff Harry Homeowner doesn't use like Photoshop UnSharp filters, and talk about how their "advanced design" gives them better performance at lower clock, rather than just generate lots of heat, they'd be better off. But Apple is the passive/aggressive co-dependant marketeer... <shrug>
Name names, bust heads, fire whatstheirnamewhowrotetheswitchads. Make funny ads. Hire guys that write beer commercials to do Apple marketing.
"Apple Macintosh. Faster, Sexier, and Easier. Unlike Girls. True."
Binky
