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

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Post by t0mislav »

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

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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.

Probably iPhone will be faster in every day usage with 2GB of RAM then these 2 phones with 6 GB.

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

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Post by iMark »

mungoman2 wrote: post #18
megablast wrote: post #10

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Intel will be ok, Apple don't sell that many chips. And it is not going to affect anyone else. And Intel are looking at helping Apple out with the next versions of their chips, possibly fabbing them.

It would be a powerful statement that Intel is not the given choice for the CPU in a "real" computers (as opposed to smartphone/tablet) anymore.

It would send a signal that Intel isn't the given choice if you've made a vast investment developing your own CPU line over the years.

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

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Post by swift »

WiseWeasel wrote: post #25
snovv_crash wrote: post #22

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To avoid dongle hell.

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

i'd be on board with two ports, i think, but one is a hard sell. i regularly want to plug things into my laptop while charging it. it's a shame, because they've almost sold me on the thing.

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

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Post by camhenlin »

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

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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.

Disagree, I use one of these machines on a daily basis (as well as one of the newer bluetooth keyboards with the same keys), and they are fantastic keyboards once you get used to them. The trackpad is fantastic as well

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

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Post by swift »

t0mislav wrote: post #31
13of40 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Probably iPhone will be faster in every day usage with 2GB of RAM then these 2 phones with 6 GB.

yep. the fact that iOS apps typically don't use GC and that multitasking is much more restricted both reduce the amount of memory that iOS needs. (though more is always better!)

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

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Post by imtringued »

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…

If these phone processors are that amazing why don't we see them being used outside phones and tablets? I mean take the A10 Fusion give it four cores instead of two and put it on a server mainboard with all the usual things like PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet and SATA. Basically do what AMD did with their A1100 except with a good processors and actually sell more than a dev kit. The lack of total raw processing power per server could be easily offset by the density and lower price of the ARM server. Why isn't this happening? I don't think lack of software is an explanation for that. Things like AWS Lambda could probably be immediately ported to run on ARM servers.

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

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Post by slavik81 »

frik wrote: post #13

I imagine in near future, we will use smartphones as our personal computer in every situation. In the office, one can then interact with a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse/touch pad and use a big monitor. Probably, one of the next iOS will come with a macOS UI as well (under the hood the iOS is based on macOS anyway) - so if you connect it to a huge monitor, you have the desktop UI of macOS, and otherwise the iOS UI. The sa…

The idea that we'll want to plug our smartphones into a dock and use them as desktops reflects really poorly on modern operating systems. The driver for this seems to be so that settings and files are always applied and accessible in every context. Sharing data between machines on a local network requires a lot of setup, is easily broken and is never seamless, but I don't think is has to be like that.

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

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Post by exmuslim »

ben_jones wrote: post #16
frik wrote: post #13

I imagine in near future, we will use smartphones as our personal computer in every situation. In the office, one can then interact with a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse/touch pad and use a big monitor. Probably, one of the next iOS will come with a macOS UI as well (under the hood the iOS is based on macOS anyway) - so if you connect it to a huge monitor, you have the desktop UI of macOS, and otherwise the iOS UI. The sa…

My phone catches on fire whenever I open up chrome. How will it handle multiple IDEs? Would be interested to hear from a hardware person if cooling is a hard or soft bottleneck for something like this...

You have major phone producers removing 3.5mm jacks to save space, by the aame attitude I think it's safe to assume no one will add a "thick" cooling system.

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

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Post by thirdsun »

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

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> 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.

Cheaper? Not at all. While I agree that the MacBook 12" is the new Air and the better purchase, it's rather expensive and currently the sole purpose of the original MacBook Air is covering the price range around 1000 €. Until the MacBook gets there.
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