It helps that for heavier work I tend to use my desktop I guess.
Claude Code, some light video and photo editing, YouTube, and Netflix.
Not sure what others using an entry level laptop would expect it to do.
The A series has been passively cooled for 15 years inside of systems with much less thermal mass.
It was only intended for highway travel at best.
But hey, you can scroll at 120hz now, right? Think different!
All this tells me is that Intel is the only manufacturer making leading chips that you can do anything with.
> Intel is the only manufacturer making leading chips
lol wat
From context you seem to be talking about overclocking. In which case only a handful of Intel chips are unlocked per generation. By contrast, most of AMD chips are unlocked.
Right now Intel is losing a lot, lucky to them Nvidia invested. So far I would only use AMD. In my desktop is an AMD, because it is just the fastest desktop CPU und the threadrippers are absolute multicore beasts for servers.
You're talking about a company that limits you from having a comma on the front of the iPhone keyboard. Why?
M silicon is very efficient on workstations for dev work.
These phones record 4K video at 120 frames a second.
They play high intensity video games.
They run on device language models.
People keep their iPhones for years — this power will ensure these phones can run iOS versions 5, 6, even 7 years from now.
And the uArch you’re seeing here will end up re-purposed for big brother M series chips in laptops and desktops.
So what exactly do you want?
What workload are you envisaging to be run on an iPhone where this even matters? Hyperbole aside, what target population of iPhone users even care about overclocking, and specifically what tangible benefit will they get out of it?
Not sure why the A18 passmark scores are quite a bit lower than A17
Mobile is a much larger game platform than PC or console.
The original ceramic shield. So durable that it lasts centuries. You can even use it for housing.
I don’t want a MacBook with an A19, I want to use the A19 I already have connected to a screen and a keyboard with a proper software stack.
PassMark and Geekbench are closed source. I don't know why I should trust them to e.g. treat fundamentally different kinds of devices in a sane way.
Haven't they been playing leap frog for years now? I avoid the ARM ecosystem now because of how non-standardized BIOS is (especially after being burned with several different SoC purchases), and I prefer compatibility over performance, but I think there have been some high performance ARM chips for quite some time
Modern Apple hardware has so much more memory bandwidth than the x86 systems they're being compared to - I'm not sure it's apples to apples.
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I don’t know if that will be the M5 or M6 series but with active cooling and wall/big battery power I bet it will be impressive.
And a pro/ultra variant with lots of cores might post some very nice multi core numbers.
Way to go Apple. That’s a great accomplishment.