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Assuming he has a Macbook Air that's probably true but only because the A10 in an iPhone is performing at the sweet spot on its frequency-voltage curve while th
by Symmetry 10y ago
Assuming he has a Macbook Air that's probably true but only because the A10 in an iPhone is performing at the sweet spot on its frequency-voltage curve while the Core iX in a MacBook air is severely undervolted to get to the Air's target power. If Intel were to design a core from scratch for that power envelope they could do better. But Apple has done very well in getting comparable performance to Intel despite Intel's process advantage.
- rm445 10y agoI suspect the author was being exact and referring to the product just called 'MacBook', rather than referring vaguely to a MacBook Air. (I can't back that up, except to note that Apple fans are usually fairly scrupulous about referring to their MacBook Pro, iPad Air, iPhone 6S etc specifically rather than lumping them together). In any case the current MacBook is quite similar to the MacBook Air and the rest of your comment probably stands.