gamecube vs wii

The gamecube was released in September 2001 and the wii was bought out around 5 years later. The gamecube has a single-threaded PowerPC processor running at 485 MHZ. The wii's processor runs at 729 MHZ so is therefore a lot faster. The gamecube has 24 MB of RAM, the wii has 88 MB of RAM. The memory card in the gamecube has 16 MB of video RAM, while the wii has 88 MB.
I understand absolutely none of those numbers and RAMS and MHZ thingys in that article but I'm gathering that it's pretty obvious that the wii is better. It seems a lot more advanced and a lot more fun than just sitting on the floor clutching a games control...and I'm guessing that you have to concentrate a lot more as you have so much more control over what you're doing on screen.