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You make a great point. I remember when I got my 12.9" iPad Pro (gen 2), and the graphics were fast as hell - Waaaaaay faster than my poor Mac Mini could do.
by MR4D 8y ago
You make a great point. I remember when I got my 12.9" iPad Pro (gen 2), and the graphics were fast as hell - Waaaaaay faster than my poor Mac Mini could do.
Based on that (and yes, both devices are now "old"), I'd trade my Mac Mini performance for the performance of my iPad without hesitation. Bring it, ARM !
- HeWhoLurksLate 8y agoI was going to post a text-heavy reply to you about that, but I decided not to. Essentially, my family got an iPad 4 and bluetooth keyboard case. A few years later, when Apple was prepping for their iPad Pro and positioning tablets as desktop replacements, I found that the work that I did was much easier on the iPad than it was on the Mac Mini (quad-core) that we had, including doing text editing and stuff of the sort. Personally, if someone put an ARM laptop in front of me with a workable, non-spyware OS, I would take it in a heartbeat.
- kllrnohj 8y agoJust going to nitpick a bit here and point out that Apple has never used ARM's graphics. They started with imgtec and then Apple took over at some point, using largely the same architecture though. Meanwhile your Mac Mini was using some form of Intel's integrated, which is notoriously trash tier. The very newest ones are OK sort of, but when push came to shove even Intel opted to ship AMD's Vega graphics in their own NUC instead.