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Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by bonestamp2 »

ingenieroariel wrote: post #20
jandrese wrote: post #17

I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux. I would also like a flying unicorn. Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that i…

Have you looked at raspberry pi clones built around FPGAs?

I didn't even know these existed! From a googling I can only find hats/daughter boards for existing raspberry pis. Is that what you mean or are there ones that are all in one?

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by bonestamp2 »

jimmy1 wrote: post #9
roryisok wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its only a matter of time before apple unveils what's basically high spec clamshell iPad pro and stops making new macbooks.

I disagree, I think they are doing a full about-face with these latest generation of garbage MBPs and I am hopeful for the refreshes. A lesson many will learn the hard way, eventually, is you don't scorn your power users because they are an endless source of evangelism and free marketing for your product.

I think he/she was suggesting macbooks would move to iOS/ARM and macbook pros would stay macOS/Intel, at least in the near future.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by kevin_b_er »

roryisok wrote: post #5
dman wrote: post #2

I hope at some point these chips make their way into an Apple laptop.

I think its only a matter of time before apple unveils what's basically high spec clamshell iPad pro and stops making new macbooks.

Apple forces developers to use MacOS to develop for iOS on. Compiling code on iOS is banned (except WebKit). You'd ban all developers from having a portable development platform.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by abritinthebay »

monocasa wrote: post #16
jimmy1 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, I think they are doing a full about-face with these latest generation of garbage MBPs and I am hopeful for the refreshes. A lesson many will learn the hard way, eventually, is you don't scorn your power users because they are an endless source of evangelism and free marketing for your product.

Also, they're literally the developers for the mobile platform. iOS has a very long way to go before you can develop on it.

Not really. The main issue is software.

Add a Bluetooth keyboard and you can code just fine on iOS. The problem is that there are no native tools for it (that we have access to).

That’s actually a very minor hurdle, not a long way at all.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by bonestamp2 »

chapium wrote: post #8
roryisok wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its only a matter of time before apple unveils what's basically high spec clamshell iPad pro and stops making new macbooks.

I thought the point of ipad was to ditch the clamshell design?

I think it was, but if most people who use them for work are sticking keyboards back on them then it might make sense to offer a clamshell or hybrid design.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by FPGAhacker »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #21
ingenieroariel wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you looked at raspberry pi clones built around FPGAs?

I didn't even know these existed! From a googling I can only find hats/daughter boards for existing raspberry pis. Is that what you mean or are there ones that are all in one?

It's not a pi clone, but google snickerdoodle board.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by H1Supreme »

jandrese wrote: post #17

I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux. I would also like a flying unicorn. Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that i…

Surely there's got to be something like that available already. I'm mostly dealing with low powered M0/M4 boards, but the selection in this range is massive.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by ianamartin »

The dearth of WWDC rumors this year is really amazing to me. Apple really is taking leaks very seriously. We're 10 days away from the keynote, and absolutely nothing is getting out.

This speculation is the best that Macworld can do? No offense to them, but I mean, the rumors are slim pickings.

I really hope that Apple fixes its laptop lineup at WWDC. It's a complete and total shitshow right now. And that's coming from a huge Apple fan.

Even before you factor in the keyboard issues, it's a mess. The Air line maxes at 8gigs of ram, but you can configure for a better core i7 proc than the MacBooks. Of course the screen is awful.

The actual MacBook line has an anemic processor, but you can get 16gigs of ram and a decent screen. But by that time, you're paying MacBook pro money. Which at 13-inches, you can't get the top specs without the touchbar, and the midrange specs on the non-touchbar are stupidly overpriced even for someone like me who's willing to pay a premium for Apple kit. And still capped at 16gigs ram.

15-inch model suffers from the same problems as the 13-inch: You can only get the maxed specs with the touch bar and the mid-range specs are a joke for the price.

The only pro laptop worth buying right now is a 3-year-old mid-2015 MacBook pro. I was in the market for a new Mac a couple of months ago and literally could not find anything worth spending money to upgrade on from Apple. I picked up two 11-inch macbook airs for cheap on eBay because I adore that tiny form factor and use them as mostly dumb terminals for remote stuff. They are surprisingly useful and have great battery life.

Apple really needs to fix the laptops and give up the goods on the Mac Pro machine. I don't care if it's throwing a bevy of these chips in an ultra thin MacBook Pro-Air X Plus or what. But this situation is embarrassing. Reminds me of the mid-90s, when there were a ton of options if you wanted a mac, but nothing really worth buying.

My work ThinkPad is an ugly brick that gets the job fucking done. I'm about to buy one for my home if I don't just stockpile all the 11" macbook airs I can find and build a home lab cluster to remote into for doing real work instead.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by stefan_ »

jandrese wrote: post #17

I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux. I would also like a flying unicorn. Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that i…

Apple chips famously have Imagination GPUs that have zero open-source support, a far ways off even from Nvidia. They are the absolute worst.

That's before you consider that all the stuff Apple did to that poor ARM probably means you can't even boot Linux into a terminal on it today.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by abritinthebay »

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #10
ArmandGrillet wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. The article in 3 parts: 1. A clickbait title. 2. Real news from Mark Gurman out since a few days now. 3. Extensions of previous years changes ("the camera improved with the iPhone X which had a new processor, the camera might thus improve this year for the same reason!").

Also... bad article if it’s meant to be hyping iPhone. The worst scenario for Apple is if the CPU of the new phone is the “best feature”. Phones are crazy fast right now. You know what they aren’t? Crazy though, crazy efficient, crazy helpful if you don’t want to be distracted, etc... phones are really stale. Typed on an iPhone8 that I just can’t not tell the different between my older7 and was almost identical to my…

Meanwhile I’m on the iPhone X and it’s the best phone I’ve used since the iPhone 4.

You’re using the model that was explicitly designed to be like the previous models. It’s not a shock it’s much like the previous models then is it?

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