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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Avid6eek" data-source="post: 172782" data-attributes="member: 8503">The 2.4Ghz Opterons are too fast for a direct comparison.  Anandtech did a dual processor shootout and in most cases the 2.4Ghz models beat the 2.7Ghz G5's...with the dual core 2.5Ghz models which are currently Apples fastest the fairest comparison would be dual core 2.2Ghz Opterons.  There is a significant price difference between the 2.2 Opty's and 2.4's.Even the developers working on the new Pentium 4 based Macs are enjoying the speed, and they are much slower processors that what AMD has to offer, so trying to compare G5's to the fastest Opterons is a cheap way to win the price war, but you are getting a far faster system.And yes, Anandtech is by far the most unbias reviewer of Mac/PC hardware out there.</blockquote>