current 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 cr

current 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.