I am talking today, now this second. I don't know what else is out there, but I imagine it will take some time for developers to rewrite software. It's unreasonable to think everything should take full advantage of emerging technology without any delay. The mac is woefully underpowered. And I as a poweruser am deeply disturbed by this.
Most reviewers gushing over macs fail to notice that the speed battle between pc and mac is over.
Unfortuately macs lost. Apple MUST do something before the gap grows even larger, or its recovery will be put in doubt. As I stated previously the G4 500MHz has a raw SPEC score of 23.1. The PIII 600MHz comes in with a SPEC score of 19.5. I don't have figures for the 700MHz, but one could extrapolate that it will be about the same as the G4 500MHz.