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 "megahertz myth" that Steve Jobs has been saying all these years is nothing but pure FUD. Maybe you should care about it if you do nothing but process huge Photoshop images all day, but otherwise, it's been misleading to say the least.
Here's the truth that I saw myself: from Apple you can get a mac mini for $600 with a 1.4ghz processor, 256M RAM, 32M video card, 80gig drive and no monitor or keyboard. 6 months ago for $650 from Dell I can get Dimension 8400 desktop computer with a 3.2ghz Pentium 4 processor, 512M RAM, 256M video card, 80gig drive minimum, DVD/CD drive, 17in flat screen monitor, keyboard, mouse. That isn't just twice the computer for the same price, it is closer to 3 times the computer Apple offers at that price. No way does Apple have a chance unless they let people run OS X on their own X86 hardware, and even then I don't see any benefit over Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Mandriva, Suse, ...