I don't disagree with you, but the average Slashdot reader should at least know that comparing a PowerMAC to an Intel based solely on CPU clock speed numbers isn't a valid comparison of performance.
You can't compare clock speeds for a RISC processor to an Intel CISC processor. The clock speed only tells you how fast each instruction is executed, not how fast the CPU runs an application compared to a different architecture. A 1.42 GHz RISC processor may well be faster than a 3 GHz CISC processor in actual performance.
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I don't disagree with you, but the average Slashdot reader should at least know that comparing a PowerMAC to an Intel based solely on CPU clock speed numbers isn't a valid comparison of performance.
You can't compare clock speeds for a RISC processor to an Intel CISC processor. The clock speed only tells you how fast each instruction is executed, not how fast the CPU runs an application compared to a different architecture. A 1.42 GHz RISC processor may well be faster than a 3 GHz CISC processor in actual performance.