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Obviously, there are a lot of open-source applications that can be run on Apple computers.

However I have never seen published benchmarks for them.

A benchmark that would be valid for comparing the efficiency of an Apple computer with a non-Apple computer would be to compile using gcc a big software project. A cross-compilation of the project would be more accurate, because for a native compilation target the compiled files might be not the same.



True, although the efficiency of the instruction set should perhaps also be part of the benchmark since many applications nowadays are JIT-compiled.

Also, there are benchmarks for browsers which you could run on both types of computer.




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