[garyhope]

Wow! How fast would it be with an AMD CPU under the hood?!Or rather how much faster than with the Intel CPU?

[Spktyr]

Apple tried going with the technologically superior processor - twice (G4, G5). It got them nowhere except screwed, so now we're on Intel and Apple's not going to play that game again.

That said, now that Apple's on X86, it wouldn't take long to port to AMD's variants (like, um, a week - wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't an AMD-optimized version already), they can play Intel and AMD off against each other if Intel gets abusive (hello IBM and Motorola, sound familiar?) to get better tech or prices. Just like Dell does.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Wow! How fast would it be with an AMD CPU under the hood?!Or rather how much faster than with the Intel CPU?

I was duped into that myth once and purchased 8 AMD PCs that were supposed to be faster than the comperable Pentium model. I will never make that mistake again.

[antiRepublicrat]

Wow! How fast would it be with an AMD CPU under the hood?!Or rather how much faster than with the Intel CPU?

Slower, for this amount of power consumption. These won't compete with a top-end Athlon FX, but watt-for-watt they are more powerful.

[Element187]

Wow! How fast would it be with an AMD CPU under the hood?!Or rather how much faster than with the Intel CPU?


Both MACs and Intels are too slow for my taste.. I'll stick with my custom built AMD system.