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Read the HN comments on that article. It's bullshit.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Read the HN comments on that article. It's bullshit.
- kyrra 10y agoWhich 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 agoStill 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).