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> Personally, I haven't seen these tests, much less heard of what MIPS
> is....

Million Instructions Per Second.  It's not a useful way of comparing
across platforms.  For comparing across platforms, the best things are
the Spec benchmarks (SpecInt, SpecFP, etc.) and real application
benchmarks, like the Photoshop tests.

> but do you honestly think that you are going to get something done
> faster than a person with a Pentium?  In the real world, almost everthing
> is networked....which again is limited by usually ethernet.....which is
> almost always regular ethernet at 10mbs.  I don't care who, you are, that's
> gunna slow you down. 

But it won't be the determining factor.  There's 100MBit ethernet and
fiber optic for those who need it, but in most situations the
slowdowns you care about won't be network.

> And if you think that getting the software loaded
> faster, or maybe having a little faster calculation is going to make you
> more productive, your wrong.  The only thing that will, is if you,
> yourself, are just plain faster, not your puter.

This is not entirely true.  If your productivity depends on a
CPU-intensive app or set of apps, the CPU speed will limit you.  This
occurs, for example, in graphical design and computer modelling work.
If my work depended on 3D rendering, Photoshop, etc., I would want the
fastest system I could get, probably something in a PowerTower Pro
250.

-Andy