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Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by riotdash »

13of40 wrote: post #15
phire wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's quite possibly faster in the CPU department than the PS4/Xbox One, though those both have 8 (slower) cores. But the PS4, Xbox One and possibly even the Wii U will have much faster GPUs.

The PS4 and XBox One also have four times as much RAM as the iPhone 7. In fact I was kind of shocked when they announced it would only have 2GB, considering you can get a Nexus or OnePlus with 6GB this year.

Well that's the difference between optimized iOS and resource hungry Android.

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by snovv_crash »

wyager wrote: post #14
zyxley wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned The Macbook-with-no-suffix line is the implicit replacement for the Air anyway.

Lighter, better screen, cheaper. I'm not sure why you'd buy an Air these days.

To avoid dongle hell.

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by visarga »

wyager wrote: post #14
zyxley wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned The Macbook-with-no-suffix line is the implicit replacement for the Air anyway.

Lighter, better screen, cheaper. I'm not sure why you'd buy an Air these days.

Keyboard doesn't feel like a keyboard, trackpad is fake, speed is that of a tablet, and has almost no ports.

I wanted the 11'' MBA with retina and an updated CPU, not a bastardized laptop. I want to feel keys pressing.

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by riotdash »

cwyers wrote: post #19

Perhaps relevant. Linus Torvalds' opinion on GeekBench: http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curposti... > So basically a quarter to a third of the "integer" workloads are just utter BS. They are not comparable across architectures due to the crypto units, and even within one architecture the numbers just don't mean much of anything. >And quite frankly, it's not even just the crypto ones. Looking at th…

Considering how many times before Tolvards has just been full of shit with his "opinions", I wouldn't pay too much attention to this...

...and especially since the whole post is 3 years old and currently the world's top engineering university and major chip makers such as AMD, ARM and MediaTek rely on Geekbench.

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by WiseWeasel »

snovv_crash wrote: post #22
wyager wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lighter, better screen, cheaper. I'm not sure why you'd buy an Air these days.

To avoid dongle hell.

One man's dongle hell is another's unplug-one-thing-and-go heaven.

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by enraged_camel »

cloudjacker wrote: post #8
gallerdude wrote: post #2

This shows both the amazing progress of iPhone and disheartening progress of the Mac line simultaneously.

Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned Would love a 16GB model. For the last 4 years of me saying that, everyone and their brother, and the Apple reps all say "oh you can configure that on the site", because they have have access to the parallel darknet version of the Apple site where Macbook airs ship with 16gb RAM I really like the air, but I can like the Macbook Pro its not really a big deal. JUST WISH THEY WOUL…

>>Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned

That's because it is.

What's interesting however is that my 2011 Macbook Air still works like a champ. It has a 1.7 Ghz Intel i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD. And, amazingly enough, the battery still lasts for 3-4 hours, even after five years of heavy usage.

Macbook Pro is too heavy for me, and I don't like the lack of ports in the newer "Macbook" line, so I've held out. At this point the only thing I wish I had was a retina display, honestly.

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by mappu »

cwyers wrote: post #19

Perhaps relevant. Linus Torvalds' opinion on GeekBench: http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curposti... > So basically a quarter to a third of the "integer" workloads are just utter BS. They are not comparable across architectures due to the crypto units, and even within one architecture the numbers just don't mean much of anything. >And quite frankly, it's not even just the crypto ones. Looking at th…

GB3 -> GB4 removed some sha1(?) tests for which Snapdragon introduced fixed-function hardware.

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by hrrsn »

visarga wrote: post #23
wyager wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lighter, better screen, cheaper. I'm not sure why you'd buy an Air these days.

Keyboard doesn't feel like a keyboard, trackpad is fake, speed is that of a tablet, and has almost no ports. I wanted the 11'' MBA with retina and an updated CPU, not a bastardized laptop. I want to feel keys pressing.

>Keyboard doesn't feel like a keyboard, trackpad is fake, speed is that of a tablet, and has almost no ports.

All valid points, bar the trackpad. The force touch trackpad is a pleasure to use and I much prefer it to previous Apple trackpads (which are still excellent).

Re: Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread

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Post by mappu »

Almost every mobile Ax SoC has pushed the contemporary boundaries of per-core performance.

But Apple won't sell these amazing chips to other manufacturers. For now, i think the openness of the Android ecosystem is still worth more than extra CPU performance.

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