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How is a current iPhone significantly different from an iMac architecturally? Sure they are curreny running different variants of Apple’s operating system, but
by jonhohle 4y ago
How is a current iPhone significantly different from an iMac architecturally? Sure they are curreny running different variants of Apple’s operating system, but they share similar processors, similar wireless connectivity, etc.
Edit: a slightly different way to look at it: the iPhone has always been a computer. Since iPhone 8 or so, it’s also had desktop class performance.
- astrange 4y agoThat’s the A7 SoC that had a “desktop class architecture”, not the phone it was in.
- paulmd 4y agocurrent iphones actually use the same exact chips as the macbook air series - the base-tier M1 (although some laptops have the more powerful pro/ultra). the crossover between "high end phone" and "ultra-portable laptop" has been observed for a number of years now, that's really the space where chromebooks thrived even with inferior ARM reference cores, if you throw an actually-good M1 into it then you get an extremely solid ultra-portable. And the bigger laptops are just more of everything - more cores, bigger GPU, more memory.
- MBCook 4y agoThe phones do NOT use the M1, although the M1 is based on the chips in the phone. The newest iPad Pro does run an actual M1 though. Either way I agree a recent iPhone would be plenty for standard work (documents, spreadsheets, email, web).