minator wrote:
Lower clocked processors cost a lot less money than high clocked processors
That's right. In the CPU production process, quite a few chips don't pass quality control. Rather than throw them away they're lowered to a clock speed at which they're stable and sold off. I believe Motorola did this for the 68040 and 68060, although in these cases it was the FPU that didn't make the grade and they were sold as having none.
All the same...it's hard to imagine that there could be massive stockpiles of lower quality G5s sitting around when there are so few real ones.
