Good job finding drivers to run macOS on ARM, though. This is entirely impractical without Apple’s help.
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Good job finding drivers to run macOS on ARM, though. This is entirely impractical without Apple’s help.
FalseThe purportedly increase of performance in older devices is accomplished by overclocking the CPU faster rather than any underlying core code optimization. This means that battery life will be impacted negatively for those older devices... It all plays in the favor of selling new devices..
They are packed with more RAM and usually more cores. I wouldn’t base performance on app launching time alone. This doesn’t mean much. I’d be more interested in the time it takes to export video.
UI design and animations. Android has been designed to skip the fluff and execute actions as fast as possible. That’s one reason. However the iOS CPU scheduler has been tweaked in iOS 12, which is the biggest reason for the speed improvements. So I think the results would be different now.
Those YouTube videos are so unscientific it’s not even funny. Take 2 stop watches and tell me if you can, at least once, get them to stop at the exact same time using 2 hands at once. Nearly impossible which completely invalidates any sort of speed test comparison.
I did see one guy is using a machine now. Still a pretty silly test IMO
The only reason the Hackintosh is possible is because Apple is using Intel CPUs. That’s it. If they went to custom ARM, this would be over in a heartbeat. Keep I mind that Hackintosh builds are severely limited as far as what pieces of hardware are compatible and updating the OS usually breaks everything. It is not a solution for mission critical machines. It’s more for people that want to use a high-end nVidia GTX1080ti or RTX1080 with macOS.
Who said it was practical?! Have you seen the crazy things people build just for the heck of it? If not check out YouTube it will bkow your mind.
I'd say it's similar to what tablets were to laptops. Tablets as a whole were designed as an alternative for lightweight tasks. Now our phones are basically cannibalizing on tablets. People are doing similar things on their phones such as editing pictures, playing more intense games (as you've mentioned), recording video and editing, docs editing, etc.
Nope, never done any of those things, never likely to either. Why bother when a Desktop is a far superior user experience?
Very unlikely.
The A12 has two fast and four "slow" CPU cores. Two A12 (that is two separate chips) would have enormous design challenges. What would be much more likely would be a single processor with more cores. (Not that I expect that either, just saying it is more likely).
Let's say CPU A takes 100ms to perform a given operation.
Let's say CPU B takes 10ms to perform the same operation.
CPU B can be in a 'sleep' mode for the other 90ms, not consuming anywhere near as much power.
Then you might measure things like 'the average app launch takes 90% less power than before'.
Sure, there's plenty of power optimisation possible, but 'just get stuff done quicker' is an excellent approach. If you can keep going faster whilst sipping the power, you're going to see benefits.
Read the AnandTech article. Lots of good information there.
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Apple doesn't make them, but you can buy ARM CPUs with 32 cores that are used in servers, drawing around 120 Watt.
My take is that it will incentivise developers to bring iPhone apps to the Mac, which in turn means Mac apps will run in ios as well, and the biggest beneficiary appears to be the iPad.
So it feels like one roundabout way of getting people to develop more apps for the iPad.
Look at the market caps of Apple (above $1tn) and Intel (about $220bn) and you should know why.
That may be true for you, but a growing plurality of people in the world already use a phone as their primary (and often only) computer.
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And if a high-end up needs 1GB of RAM, 4GB means you can run four of these apps.
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If you look at prices for _the same_ phone, they have actually gone down quite substantially. Something like an iPhone 7+ has gone done in price quite a bit since it was introduced. (And it used to be top of the range, now it's the cheap model).
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There will never be Intel emulation for ARM processors - because there is no need to. Most software needs nothing more than being re-compiled. As an iOS developer, you can already run iOS software on an Intel processor. And you can submit apps to the App Store that will run on any future processor.
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The vast majority of people, myself included, would strongly disagree with you.
The purportedly increase of performance in older devices is accomplished by overclocking the CPU faster rather than any underlying core code optimization. This means that battery life will be impacted negatively for those older devices... It all plays in the favor of selling new devices..
And your evidence is what exactly?
Mine runs perfectly smooth. Even better than my previous 7 Plus. Do you own one???
With your stylish Nike asbestos wrist band to shield you from the searing heat.
It’s really amazing what Apple has done here. We all have to appreciate the design and technology. A chip so powerful and efficient at the same time. Just ran an Antutu just to see. Got a 364,000. Insane.
I'm a very casual iPhone user, and even I use these things. It really has nothing to do with user experience, but more with convenience and intuition.
Let's talk about photo editing. Much of the camera editing software on the iPhone lets you quickly add filters, modify attributes, and send it out via email or post to social media. You can do this without being near a computer. I'd argue from a user experience, this exact flow is much easier on a mobile phone than a desktop primarily because you don't need to find and sit at a desktop to do this.
The purpose for the increase in computing power helps with faster transcoding/transmuxing of media out of the iPhone.
Synthetic benchmarks are not the entire story. Just tells you a One Sided story.
That said, it’s quite remarkable how a mobile CPU is almost on par with a last gen Desktop CPU. However, the grain of salt here is if the A-Series CPUs have the same CPU features as the Intel chips. My guess, most likely not.
I don’t think they have virtualization support for instance in an A-Series.
That said, it’s quite remarkable how a mobile CPU is almost on par with a last gen Desktop CPU. However, the grain of salt here is if the A-Series CPUs have the same CPU features as the Intel chips. My guess, most likely not.
I don’t think they have virtualization support for instance in an A-Series.
It’s all well and good to have a supercomputer in your pocket (at significant cost mind you), but that just makes the neglect of the MacBook, Mac Mini and iMac lines all the more stark.
If Apple only put a fraction of the effort into Mac as it does the iPhone.
If Apple only put a fraction of the effort into Mac as it does the iPhone.
There already is for windows, I don't see any reason Apple wouldn't do the same on mac for the first year or two to ease transition: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on-arm-x86-emulation