It may not have been "faster," than many other things, but it played all of its games at full speed afaik. My parent's old Windows 95 Desktop played DOS games at killer rates; yes, a whole 333mhz. This would only be relevant or useful information if you were trying to run PS3 games on it.
Im am actually considering buying one on this information alone. As long as it doesn't exceed $300 at release, Ill bite (Sadly unlikely). I very rarely play my Wii though...
Magic doesn't come cheap, now does it?