That even means the beige versions of the Mac before it. I'll go one step further. That means that you can run programs that are as old as 9 years or more. That's a pretty long time, considering that most Mac users upgrade to a faster Mac every 4-5 years or so. Heck, my last Mac lasted me 4.5 years.
Speed bumps mean little unless they are major bumps in speed.
We would like to thank MacSpeedZone for letting us borrow their MacBench Benchmark info. For the record, the iMac 333 should come in at around 1100 MacBench Score. Well, let's look at it. This is normal increase in speed from year to year, BTW, and I'd venture to guess that the rest of the PC industry has seen the same speed increase since August 1998. In a typical application like Quicken and MS Word 98, the savings in time would just be a few seconds or fractions of a second in some cases.