Apple products are priced a little higher than others. This is not news.

Check out this benchmark comparision.

http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=129700&doc2=135353

The interesting thing here is this: that Athlon can be picked up with a motherboard at Fry’s for like $400. Wow.

You can even compare that AMD with a Dual G5 and see the same jump in speed over the G5.

When Apple moves to Intel, the older Macs are really going to start looking much paler.