I work in the design engineering organization of the workstation (Intel-based) product line for a VERY large computer outfit........ahem.........and trust me; it ain't even close.
No, they're whining that the P4 is slower on a per-megahertz basis than some other chips, and because they were too fricking stupid to read any of the many benchmarks freely available on the web, they should be entitled to a govt. mandated handout at the expense of Intel because Intel, horror of horrors, advertised the actual clock speed of the chips and didn't warn the ignorant that clock speed isn't everything (I suppose they should have explained branch prediction and pipelining in their Blue Man ads).