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On Geekpatrol.ca there is a comparison between… Mac Mini 1.42 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 167 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 333 SDRAM iMac G5 2.1 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 700 MHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 667 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 2.0 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 512 MB RAM DDR2 667 SDRAM Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz 256 KB L2 cache per cpu 2 MB backside L3 cache per cpu 167 MHz system bus 1.75 GB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 768 MB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 512 KB L2 cache per processor 900 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM. Power Mac G5 Dual Core 2.0 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1000 MHz system bus 2.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM Power Mac G5 ‘Quad’ 2.5 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1.25 GHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2 GHz) 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB of DDR 400 SDRAM. Intel Pentium 4c 2.4 GHz HT 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM Intel Xeon Dual 3.2 GHz HT 1MB L2 cache per CPU 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 400 SDRAM … using Geeckbench Preview: a opensource benchmark running on MacOSX and Windows by now. ...

This was the most accredited motivation that causes Apple to choose Intel against AMD. I prefer AMD but… seems to be that Intel are much more “efficient”. And “in Jobs we trust”, right :D? See here.