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There are various cost cutting factors in the iMac, so you can't claim that another G3 of the same speed will perform the same as an iMac.
Linux also runs on Mac SEs, as shown by Debian.
These machines perform just fine..?
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RISC is *not* fundamentally better than CISC. Yes, it means a cleaner CPU design, which means that your engineers don't go crazy trying to design it, but most optimizations which people only thought possible on RISC are also done on CISC machines. CISC has its advantages, too: smaller memory and disk footprint, which leads to better cache performance. Yes, x86 architecture is insane, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will have lower performance.
And I doubt a machine from Apple will *ever* outperform a similarly priced commodity product. The rest of the world has the advantages of mass production and competition, which Apple fears greatly.
Maybe I'm just not being open minded...
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Um, time for you to stop quoting Jobs and look at actual numbers, perhaps?
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There are various cost cutting factors in the iMac, so you can't claim that another G3 of the same speed will perform the same as an iMac.
Linux also runs on Mac SEs, as shown by Debian.
RISC is *not* fundamentally better than CISC. Yes, it means a cleaner CPU design, which means that your engineers don't go crazy trying to design it, but most optimizations which people only thought possible on RISC are also done on CISC machines. CISC has its advantages, too: smaller memory and disk footprint, which leads to better cache performance. Yes, x86 architecture is insane, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will have lower performance.
And I doubt a machine from Apple will *ever* outperform a similarly priced commodity product. The rest of the world has the advantages of mass production and competition, which Apple fears greatly.
Um, time for you to stop quoting Jobs and look at actual numbers, perhaps?
Set a bios password, and someone will just use one of the many known BIOS backdoor passwords...