The only benchmark that matters is ... (Score 1)

the seat of your pants. Does it really matter how many electrons can be forced across a silicon chip in a millisecond ? I want to see response times for a host of applications, from office productivity to games, complete with feedback from actual humans who have used the app on a given machine/OS. Speed is *not* everything, but I'd like to spend less time waiting for various icons to stop spinning and my apps to load. I'll leave the server stuff to the sys admins (yes, detailed metrics are important in that domain - no question) : I just want to read that buying a new Power Mac or iMac is going to have a tangible benefit for me in terms of the applications I use. Just my ten bahts worth.