Oh yea, it won't outperform Athlon in any real world usage. It can probably outdo it in unrealistic benchmarks like spec mark etc. But MIPS and BIPS don't mean jack when the rest of the system aren't optimized for it. As for the looks, even though I'm a Mac user as well, I hate to admit that it looks really cheesy. It's overdone. The original iMac was cool but when they started coming out with 'flower power' and all those cheesy colors, I've just about had it. The only color that I thought wasn't cheesy was the graphite colored one..which is the one I own.