Cory5412 said:

In addition to all of that, as uniserver said, the Netburst-based Developer Transition Kit (which had like a 3.2GHz P4 with HyperThreading in it, so not even the fastest Pentium 4 or Netburst chip) totally killed it benchmarking (and doing actual work) against everything except the quad.

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Do you have an actual link to a benchmark done on the DTK hardware? The recipients of those things were *strictly* banned from publishing any benchmarks run on them, under pain of death (IE, lawsuit for breaking your NDA.) There were articles published in which people repeated vague hearsay-ish things about how quick the machines "felt", but I would challenge you to find a benchmark that shows a single core NetBurst "Killing" a contemporary G5. (Okay, so if I go with the Geekbench 2 score of 1951 for a Pentium 4 540-based Hackintosh that is almost twice as high as the 1074 produced by a *2003 vintage* 1.6ghz single CPU Power Mac G5... but guess what, the Pentium 4 is clocked twice as fast. That's hardly "killing it".)