Linked by David W. Kuhn on Fri 10th Jun 2005 16:34 UTC
Was it Palol Rossetti that one said, "People in glass house shouldn't throw stones?" Push away the Intel this, the Pentium-M that, or perhaps the ability to use the Dual Core Pentium 4, Apple has a much bigger challenge ahead of them. For years, they have been throwing down the MHz myth and now? They are sleeping with the "enemy" according to PowerPC zealots. 
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The MHz and the myth has been all about marketing. If you are currently leading in Mhz.. you use it in your favor. if you aren't leading, they it becomes the "myth".
Processor architectures will continue to change, hopefully get better. Mhz will rise and fall with those changes. MHz will be used by whoever is faster, and the "myth" will be used by those who are slower. Nothing will ever change -- unless everyone can come to agreement on some ultimate measure of performance. (yeah..like THAT will ever happen).
The bonus: OSX has been running on the x86 architecture for the last 5 years. While Apple is going to be using Intel chips for now, they would be nothing to stop them from jumping to AMD if they choose in the future. So they really don't need to play the MHz game anymore and just concentrate on OSX and all those great iApps.