Sure, but the iPhone 11 [1] is also 17% faster in single core Geekbench 5 scores than the Intel i9-9880H [2] that Apple was using in their top of the line MacBo

Sure, but the iPhone 11 [1] is also 17% faster in single core Geekbench 5 scores than the Intel i9-9880H [2] that Apple was using in their top of the line MacBook Pros back then too, so "a four year old iPhone" is not exactly some old and unusably slow processor. Apple's mobile SoCs were (and largely still are) in a performance class of their own. Half as fast single core on the RK3588's P-cores is still perfectly usable for workstation activities, in fact that's about what you'd get on an i5-8210Y MacBook Air from 2018 [3] which I'm sure a few people here are using as their daily driver. [1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21459716 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21459716 [2] https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21459261 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21459261 [3] https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21415175 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21415175