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Yeah, but it's doing that at 3.2 GHz versus 4.9+ GHz that the top-end Intel CPUs need to run at to get equivalent single-core performance.

And we've now come full circle back to the PowerPC days.

Except in the PPC days they didn’t even have a power advantage, which is why there never was a PowerBook G5.

They actually did, to some extent, right up to the G4. The G5 is where things really went off the rails.