Adobe's new PC Preferred site republishes information that first appeared in July 2002, a performance comparison of a then top-of-the line Dell 2.53 GHz Precision Workstation vs. an equally decked-out dual processor Power Mac G4 running a 1 GHz. The single processor Dell crushed the Mac in every test, with Adobe noting, "While the computers used in this study are no longer the fastest in their respective classes, the information is still valid. The PC outperformed the similar Macintosh machine, at an impressive rate." Today, the fastest PCs feature clock speeds over 3 GHz, while G4-powered Macs have jumped to 1.42 GHz
