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Also, it was around this time that the chips in ipad pros were strangely getting close to intel cpu performance in benchmarks while running in thin enclosures w

• alberth 4y ago
  > Also, it was around this time that the chips in ipad pros were strangely getting close to intel cpu performance Around what time? 2015? Maybe I could have been more clear in my original post but 2015 was the year the iPad Pro launched. How could the “iPad Pro were getting close to Intel performance” happen in thr first version? The very first iPad Pro was already more performant than the MacBook 12” (which also launched that same year).
  • 7speter 4y ago
    Oh Im pretty sure since the ipad pro launched or maybe the gen after, their scores in various benchmarks were getting scary close to the intel benchmarks. It mightve started maybe 30% off but with each generation the gap closed. It was increasingly clear that apples arm chips weren’t just toy chips limited to tablets and tech media talked about how it was only a matter of time before there would be an arm mac or a mac/ios convergence. Whenever Tim Cook was asked, why pretty much up until maybe a few months before the apple silicon announcement, he said there weren’t any plans to switch the mac to arm.