Apple WWDC 2005-The Intel Switch Revealed

Don't forget the CPU is just a single component from a whole system. What makes a mac so powerful is the complete architecture design, not to mention the very well optimized mac OS X.

ah i didnt know about that tho. that dual core g4 thing. you're right it would be cool

I disagree with both of those reasons

My G5 does not get "heated" and it is quite fast. It may not be at 3.0GHz but it does have a fsbus clocked in at 1GHz, about 200MHz faster then the Core 2 Duo.

You do have a point about the Powerbook though. At the time a G5 processor was out of the question; Not because of heat or speed, but because of power consumption. But before Apple pulled a Judas on IBM, IBM had allegedly been developing a dual core G4, which in my opinion would have been amazing.

G5 chips were not fast enough and heated too much, apple couldnt even put out powerbook g5 for that reason, it was the right time for a change thats why they made the move.

Well, because the "new" macs are great and it's kinda lame to not buy one of them just because of the Intel processor.