From what I've gathered the Barcelona processor preforms much better once it's past 2.4GHz. Apparently the higher clock speed allows the rest of the chip to prefrom much more efficently and prefromance becomes slightly better than a similarly clocked Core 2. Below 2.4GHz it's preformance is slightly slower per clock. Unfortunatly since it's fairly easy to get a Core 2 to 3+GHz Barcelona doesn't look as competative as the clock speed does not scale as well.


Oh and the NDA is being lifted Monday so look foward to the reveiws.