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If you look up Geekbench scores for these devices at least, the iPhone 7 gets a higher score than the 12" MacBook, the latest MacBook Air, is similar in perform

If you look up Geekbench scores for these devices at least, the iPhone 7 gets a higher score than the 12" MacBook, the latest MacBook Air, is similar in performance to a 2013 MacBook Pro, and even has better single core performance than the top of the line 12 core Mac Pro.

whamlastxmas 10y ago
Read the HN comments on that article. It's bullshit.
- kyrra 10y ago
  Which discussion, this one? It doesnt seem that clear cut from the comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511779
  - seanp2k2 10y ago
    Still apples to oranges, and it's just one benchmark. How long does e.g. Npm install take with the same project, compiling the same dependencies? ARM might come to desktop eventually, and it's damn impressive that for a single benchmark from a single test, someone was able to get the ip7 to beat a >1000 days-old Mac Pro in one metric, but they've learned from the PowerPC switch and a new arch won't happen overnight. I very highly doubt that the MacBooks hopefully coming later in 2016 will be anything other than Intel, hopefully Kaby Lake. I'd predict that the earliest we'd see an ARM MacBook would be 2018, and my guess is that they'd do it as a separate mode (so, have the A12X CPU in there with an Intel Coffee Lake or Cannon Lake main x86 CPU) and let it do something like dual-boot iOS and macOS, or have way tighter integration (run iOS apps as just another window in macOS, for example...dual-booting seems un-Apple-y, even with BootCamp).
jhasse 10y ago
MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) 3236 iPhone 7 3288 I wouldn't call this "significantly", especially when looking at the multi-core scores: MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) 6419 iPhone 7 5308 The iPhone 7 was just released, the MacBook Air is over a year old.

whamlastxmas 10y ago

Read the HN comments on that article. It's bullshit.

kyrra 10y ago
Which discussion, this one? It doesnt seem that clear cut from the comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511779
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  Still apples to oranges, and it's just one benchmark. How long does e.g. Npm install take with the same project, compiling the same dependencies? ARM might come to desktop eventually, and it's damn impressive that for a single benchmark from a single test, someone was able to get the ip7 to beat a >1000 days-old Mac Pro in one metric, but they've learned from the PowerPC switch and a new arch won't happen overnight. I very highly doubt that the MacBooks hopefully coming later in 2016 will be anything other than Intel, hopefully Kaby Lake. I'd predict that the earliest we'd see an ARM MacBook would be 2018, and my guess is that they'd do it as a separate mode (so, have the A12X CPU in there with an Intel Coffee Lake or Cannon Lake main x86 CPU) and let it do something like dual-boot iOS and macOS, or have way tighter integration (run iOS apps as just another window in macOS, for example...dual-booting seems un-Apple-y, even with BootCamp).

jhasse 10y ago

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) 3236 iPhone 7 3288 I wouldn't call this "significantly", especially when looking at the multi-core scores: MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015) 6419 iPhone 7 5308 The iPhone 7 was just released, the MacBook Air is over a year old.