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That doesn’t sound like a thing apple would do. The big reason to switch from intel to arm is not performance, it is two reasons: cost and control. Apple is no
by Joeri 7y ago
That doesn’t sound like a thing apple would do. The big reason to switch from intel to arm is not performance, it is two reasons: cost and control. Apple is no doubt getting a nice discount from intel, but they can make something with similar performance for a fraction of the cost. The new iphone se is faster than the macbook air, but it costs less than half. The cpu is a big part of that equation. In addition, apple is currently tied to intel’s roadmap, a situation which they surely want to end. Cost and control will drive them to switch the whole line-up.
I expect the transition to be done before the end of 2022, with intel support being dropped from the latest OS two years later, and no more macOS updates for intel-based macs two years after that.
- scarface74 7y agoThere have been benchmarks showing that the A13 chip in the $400 iPhone SE is faster in single core performance than their 16 inch MacBook Pro. This is even with the thermal limits of a phone.
- oblio 7y agoYeah, run those benchmarks at full throttle for 4 hours and let's check the scores then :-)
- wtallis 7y agoFull throttle for 4 hours isn't the use case for the 16-inch MacBook Pro, either.
- FpUser 7y agoWorked just fine on my HP Omen 15 laptop and not for 4 hours but more like for a week and half non stop as I had to encode whole pile of 4K videos from pro format to consumer (h264). All the while I was also coding and debugging the application. I set TDP limiter so that the temp does not go above 80C that still has all 6 cores running at around 3GHz if I remember correctly. The fans were running non stop but not full throttle. Not a thing what I would normally do but my rendering desktop was out of commission for a few days while waiting for parts to arrive.
- scarface74 7y agoWell, since we are talking about processor suitability for laptops, why wouldn’t having the higher thermal limits of a laptop compared to the phone allow the ARM chip to go “full throttle”.