Apple Power Mac G4 M8705B/A

Apple Power Mac G4 M8705B/A ... Mac G4 to a 3GHz Pentium 4-based PC, using nine commonly used actions and filters that stress overall system performance - including processor, memory, system bus and hard drive - in Photoshop.

The result? The dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4 is 32 percent faster than the fastest PC on the market with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor. Fact is, even the dual processor 1.25GHz Power Mac G4 system outperform the Pentium 4 by 23 percent. How, you might ask, can even the Power Mac G4 outperform a PC with a Pentium 4 processor running at more than twice the megahertz? It's further proof that megahertz alone is a poor indicator of real-world system performance, particularly when comparing different overall system architectures. You do the math.