2.0 and 2.16 GHRZ?

hi all,
is there a noticeable difference in the possessor speeds 2.0 and 2.16 GHRZ? All i will be running are firefox, ichat, ical, itunes, mail, iphoto, .mac sync, etc.

2.16 GHz is 8% faster than 2.00 GHz. In a best case scenario, you'd expect an 8% speed-up of CPU-limited applications. FireFox, iCal, Mail, and .Mac sync should never find themselves limited by the CPU and you'd expect to see no difference at all in performance (well, Mail does some indexing, so maybe the indexing of mail messages will go 8% faster).
iPhoto isn't generally CPU-limited except when calculating thumbnails for large bunches of photos, and maybe when exporting a slideshow to large-format video. Here you MIGHT notice a marginal difference, though I'm not sure that it would be perceptible. A considerable amount of that is still I/O-limited (e.g., the disk writes slower than the CPU can produce data to write, so the CPU waits for the disk to catch up - ergo no benefit from a faster processor).
Of course, that doesn't take into account what happens when you run lots of apps at the same time. Under those conditions, the extra CPU power does help the operating system to manage the multiple applications a little better. Again, I'm not sure the 8% difference is enough to be perceptible.

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N.B. And yes there are more articles and tutorials available but much of them targets the Java SE / EE, but if you want to read them here is [another great one straight from SUN|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/index.html] .
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