http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html
Notice that for the few PS3 WU's being crunched, the atom count is in the hundreds, whle the atom count for PCs and others are in the thousands and tens of thousands..
PS3 work units are in the
hundred thousands, 200,000 is avg. number i've seen people posting on the web, i'm sure they do larger ones because people are saying it takes 8-10hrs to fold. But when compared with a thousand or ten's of thousands work units most PCs get that take days to work out, you can see the CELL clearly pwns at this sort of work. I too use my x1900 to fold, so much nicer than the CPU because i can still web browse while i fold.
Side note, when you look at the CELL's 300Tflop performance, and compare the cost of the Stream Processors from nVidia and ATI, the CELL is much more efficient folder for the cost, being only a few hundred TFlops less than a GPU stream processor.
One last thing, if the PS3's are running F@H this well just imagine what the Opteron/CELL servers would do that are being built 8O
Edit: Grammar/Spelling
I take it you don't have a dual-core processor? I used to fold on my laptop and I could still do all my normal tasks without any real noticeable degradation in performance. You should still be able to browse the Internet while folding with a typical single-core, though, :?