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[Elmer Phud]

Anybody here understand the Apple/Motorola G4 versus Intel deal? Like, I have a 800mhz chip (I think) in this imac. But it is apparently the equivalent of a 2.4 Ghz Intel chip. I think it has something to do with being 192-bit data channels versus 32 bit channels. This has always confused the heck out of me. Anybody know what I'm talking aabout?

One must ask themselves if the G4 is the equivilant of a 2.4GHz P4, then what is meant by equivilant? Who says? The only benchmarks I am aware of that are published by practically all system vendors are SPEC benchmarks.

http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/cpu2000.html

The PPC chip produced by IBM, Motorola does not publish industry standard benchmarks, is not competitive with the P4 in integer performance, even the most highend version with 128MB of L3. For FP the POWER architecture is competitive on the very highend but at are very high price. In short, Apple's claim is based on a very selective benchmark and not a valid comparison.

EP