I've always found that benchmarks are not good at showing OS performance for desktop applications. Why? I don't really need raw speed. What I need is somethi

I've always found that benchmarks are not good at showing OS performance for desktop applications. Why? I don't really need raw speed. What I need is something that will allow me to switch tasks and use other applications while one is locking up/doing a ton. BeOS was great at that. I'm guessing the new Comlpetely Fair Scheduler that is debuting in Intrepid is better in that way too. My use of Intrepid shows it to be noticably faster in my daily usage. However, I'm not compressing video. I'm running several apps at a time and need to switch between them a lot.