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Can the iPad and iPhone sustain the performance? I think that’s the kicker. Your regular laptop even an air will have a fan. The A series chips look amazing on
by 2muchcoffeeman 7y ago
Can the iPad and iPhone sustain the performance? I think that’s the kicker. Your regular laptop even an air will have a fan. The A series chips look amazing on paper but iPad and iPhones don’t have the cooling for sustained performance.
- snazz 7y agoThe 2016 MBP (the only one I've used) has very poor thermals too. The much lower TDP/benchmark point of the A series means that they're surprisingly competitive with the poorly-cooled MacBooks. If MacBooks of that era had better thermals, the Intel chip would blow it out of the water on sustained use.
- ebg13 7y agoI don't think you're making the argument that you think you are. For the right mental comparison, imagine the iPad CPU in the laptop housing with all of the laptop's cooling.
- 2muchcoffeeman 7y agoYou can’t buy one of these mythical setups. I think people bring up the bench marks as though there’s going to be another architecture change. Maybe. But for now the Air is still faster than your phone in general. Don’t get me wrong. The A series chips are amazing. But the benchmarks have looked very impressive for years. Nothing has come from it except fantasising.