> there was a lot of marketing around the high Mhz of the Mac CPU compared with PCs Em, no. At a time when Apple used PowerPC instead of Intel processors, Appl

> there was a lot of marketing around the high Mhz of the Mac CPU compared with PCs Em, no. At a time when Apple used PowerPC instead of Intel processors, Apple wanted to de-emphasize Megahertzes because the PowerPC chips had lower clock frequencies than the Intel chips of the day. Instead, Apple would advertise the PowerMac as being twice as fast as PC workstations, and it would speak of megaflops and ‘the first desktop supercomputer’. See also ‘The Megahertz Myth’[1]. So yes, Apple did compare the performance of their pro models (PowerMac, PowerBook) with PC counterparts, but they didn’t use clock frequency or memory speed to make their point. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth