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

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Post by 13of40 » Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 1:35 PM UTC

tigershark wrote: post #45

13of40 wrote: post #15

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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.

Why in the world you would need 6GB in a phone today? And the nexus can have all the ram in the world but will always be painfully slow. I am really surprised that I didn't throw my Nexus 5 against the wall out of frustration in the end. The real surprise was when my friend bought the nexus 6x or whatever is called and it was even slower than the nexus 5. Just to sum up, RAM is the most useless thing if all the rest…

I have an iPad mini, and my major complaint is that applications crash due to lack of memory all the time. Things like a page full of animated gifs will crash the browser. I got a OnePlus 3 a couple of weeks ago and I haven't even remembered to charge the iPad since. I'm pretty sure it (the iPad) is going to end up in my drawer of misfit PDAs.

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

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Post by Corrado » Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 1:44 PM UTC

imtringued wrote: post #37

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 ser…

I half-way expect the next line of Apple laptops to be powered by such a chip architecture. Imagine a MBP consisting of 4 A12 chips with bucketloads of RAM, etc. Not only could it run macOS but you could run iOS apps as well. Not that I think that's a good thing (looking at you Microsoft Metro) but it should be possible.

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

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Post by Brakenshire » Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 2:39 PM UTC

iMark wrote: post #32

mungoman2 wrote: post #18

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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.

The rest of the ARM ecosystem is trailing behind Apple, but it is following. If Apple switched, 2-3 years later the rest of the laptop/desktop space would be in the same position.

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

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Post by extra88 » Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

plantain wrote: post #29

It's just a matter of time before we see ARM's in Macbooks. I wonder if we'll see Rosetta make an appearance for binary backward-compatibility again.

More likely than something Rosetta-like are "universal applications," application bundles containing both x86 and ARM executables.

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

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Post by WiseWeasel » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 12:04 AM UTC

majewsky wrote: post #70

WiseWeasel wrote: post #25

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

A second port wouldn't break your usecase.

I've noticed that having no choice in the matter makes it significantly more likely to be the case. After making the switch, I do feel that my experience is nicer for it.

Expansion lives on the outside, tailored to the environment in which it resides, and the battery lasts long enough that I can spend most of my day without the power adapter connected.