not to be a mac hater at all, but i would be much more impressed by a 1.25 GHz iMac than a dual 933 MHz iMac, say. i mean, SMP makes it cool to have DP, and that is monster cool if you actually, you know, do more than one thing actively at a time, but then i don't really do that, and i don't know many non-professional users who do either. on the other hand, if i had a dual 1.25 GHz iMac, i could stand it upside down on it's 17 inch display, open up the base, fill it with oil, and fry fish or something. that would be pretty impressive. almost as impressive as, say, my new powerbook doing my laundry card, or even my bluetooth madule getting into the laundry cycle and not being destroyed.
If apple got into the fry-daddy market, i would definitely start eating out at those catfish joints in the South.
i'm sorry, i think i have been reading a little TOO MUCH as the apple turns... anyways, my real opinion is that a really fast, single processor is in my opinion better than 2 slow ones. i mean, would you use a quad processor 633 MHz powermac over a dual 1.25 GHZ powermac? doesn't it follow, then, that you'd take a single processor 2 GHz G4, were it offered? i think that would blatantly flame out a 3 GHz P4 a lot better than the doolies running onder the apple hood now.
just as a side comment, i am hitting on 200 posts and i still haven't spammed yet. i think you people (you know who you are) should play fair.
[edit]and i have successfully resisted the urge to spam out my next 7 messages to get there now![/edit]