Damn I love these debates. For starters lets just say once and for all the Macintsh G4 is the best
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Yes you will find advantages from both Apple and PeeCee chips. Overall Apple does beat the crap out of just about all PC's. Now you get a PC chip that is equal in speed and you will soon realize that the MAC will win. The company that makes the chips for Apple is Motorola. Motorola also uses these same chips in some of the best servers out on the market(SUN micro systems). Don't forget guy's the big thing that slowed down the MAC was the OS. Most of these bench marks you see done are running the old MAC OS. The new OS for the MAC is running a varient of BSD *nix. This OS will out perform the PC easily especially if each machine is running at the same speed. Skyler's link to the bench mark test is bad. Trying to do a bench mark test using applications is not a real bench mark test(no offence Sky). The Applications are written completely different for each machine. I would like to see a real test using the main OS, windoze using the there ancient Dos prompt and the MAC using a terminal window and running commands from there. Doing this you will get a huge difference and how well the G4 chips really are.
I agree with Skyler that the MHZ is all nothing more than a marketing scheme to sell newer machines.
Kell, I like your point of view, But a 2.54 P4 beating a MAC????