Very,Very Fast.
The new Power Mac G4 with PowerPC G4 processors demonstrates its speed against the 1.7GHz Pentium 4. Quite simply the fastest personal computer ever built to run graphics applications, this Power Mac G4 rips through tasks like Gaussian blurs, lighting effects, rotations and color conversions. In tests involving 9 Photoshop actions, the new 733MHz system is 33% faster, the 867MHz system is 58% faster and the dual 800MHz Power Mac G4 creams the 1.7GHz Pentium 4 by a blistering 83%.**
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**Based on a suite of performance tests using Adobe Photoshop 6.0.
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At Macworld New York, Apple Senior VP of Hardware Jon Rubinstein detailed why the clock speed of a computer isn’t an accurate way to compare system performance. Overall system design and processor-architecture differences affect real-world application performance, otherwise you might be fooled by what he terms “The Megahertz Myth.” Watch this 8-minute video to see his full presentation.