MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz beats dual Opteron 2.4GHz
And the PowerMac Quad (with WindowsXP-SP2, Digital Photo Professional, single worker).
Forget the boring MacWorld magazine Boot Camp benchmarks noted yesterday— photographers who insist on running Windows will find the MacBook Pro (see my experience report) offers outstanding performance with Digital Photo Professional. See the numbers for yourself in my Digital Photo Professional Batch Processing Performance Tip article.
Nikon Capture users should be equally impressed.