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Originally Posted by ntlrocks
i just mean in general terms why a laptop running windows xp at 2.6GHZ cost the same price as a mac running OSX at 800mhz.
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Cos Microsoft have had plenty of time to complicate XP?
Are both Pentium and Mac (68000?) both RISC or CISC processors?
Cisc (Complex Instruction Set Computers) do complicated calculations/operations per CPU clock cycle and have a slower speed.
Risc (Reduced Instruction Set Computers) have simple instructions but operate at a far higher clock speed.
The number of CPU's sold will also have a bearing, its cheaper to massively mass produce, than mass produce. Macs don't sell as many units.
Also how many manufacturers are competing to produce CPU's to run Mac software?