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> And given that the base 17 doesn't have VCC, I guess Apple isn't "admitting" it at all, no? It will be fun to see how hot the iPhone Air gets since it has th
by minimaxir 1y ago
> And given that the base 17 doesn't have VCC, I guess Apple isn't "admitting" it at all, no?
It will be fun to see how hot the iPhone Air gets since it has the same chip as the 17 Pro (w/ one fewer GPU core), but a less thermally conductive metal and no vapor chamber.
- llm_nerd 1y agoThis will be one of those situations where we'll really miss Anandtech. Still can't believe that site died. In the real world I doubt anyone will ever notice the difference, VCC or not. VCC only will materially affect usage when someone is doing an activity that will hit throttling, which is actually extraordinarily rare in normal use, and usually only comes into play in benchmarking. The overwhelming majority of time we peg those cores for a tiny amount of time and get a quick Animoji or text-extraction from an image, and so on. Even the "AI" usage on a mobile device is extremely peaky.
- joshstrange 1y agoI imagine it will be a lot like the MacBook Air, in that it just thermal throttles faster. It has the same chip as the Pro but will never seen the same _sustatined_ performance.
- NaomiLehman 1y agoThere is a difference because you can get an M4 Pro/Max and much more RAM with a MacBook Pro.