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Maybe that’s why my HomePod feels so slow?
by ChrisLTD 6y ago
Maybe that’s why my HomePod feels so slow?
- AceJohnny2 6y agoThe SoC in the Homepod is old. It's the Apple A8, which was used on iPhone 6 (2014). The HomePod Mini uses Apple S5, which was in the Apple Watch 5 (2019)
- saagarjha 6y agoNote that the S5 is essentially identical to the S4 chip.
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- Synaesthesia 6y agoIt's not that bad of a CPU. It's powering my iPad Air 2 (A8X) which doesn't do too badly. Remember when we were freaking out about the unprecedented performance of the A7, the first 64-bit mobile chip? And now it's in a speaker.
- duhi88 6y agoFor real. Maybe, just maybe, a voice-controlled speaker doesn't need the latest cutting edge CPU. I wasn't expecting new Homepod hardware until after they announce on-device Siri. That seems like the only thing that would warrant a better CPU.
- ChrisLTD 6y agoIt feels slower than my old Amazon Echo which is certainly using a crappier chip than the A8.
- selykg 6y agoDoesn't seem slow to me. Mine responds quite quickly.
- ChrisLTD 6y agoDo you have an Echo or Google Home for comparison?
- selykg 6y agoI don't, but the wait time from when I ask my HomePod to do something and when it does it is fast enough for me that I don't much mind. If I say "Hey Siri, turn on my lamp" it turns it on within a second or so of asking.
- dzhiurgis 6y agoMaybe depends on country. iCloud is silly slow abroad. Takes 3 minutes to download 30 second video on a gig connection.
- bashwizard 6y agoYes, it's super slow abroad. Especially in the US.
- acolumb 6y agoConsidering that the HomePod non-mini doesn’t do any on-device language processing, I don’t see a need for that much power.
- ulfw 6y agoYea but who says that a watch chip from 2019 is faster than a phone SoC from 2014?