never do I pick up my iPhone 12 mini and think that it's slow
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Here's How Much Faster the A18 Pro Chip is Compared to the A17 Pro
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Yes.
My CWWK AL-4L N305 (x8 Gracemont) is a real beast; all within a <=20W footprint.
3TB nvme, 48GB Gen5 and 4x1Gb networking.
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I'm excited to see what they will then offer when Lunar Lake actually enters the atmosphere
I am also an owner of an iPhone 15 Pro Max and will perhaps buy a 16 Pro Max in a few days, and I wonder if your evaluation "slightly slower" is correct?
$1500 less? Where do you live? In CAD $1500 is the price of the entire 16PM. Or did you get your phone for free ?
My future with computers is this one :
You carry it in your pocket, and wherever you go, you put it on a base to charge and it expands into macOS on a big screen. It's the future of iPhones IMO. That would put Apple in a unique position against their competitors, because Android can only expand into bigger Android, (or Tizen) not into Windows.
They kind of started doing that with iPadOS.
Wait, the phone now has WiFi 7? That's excellent news — it means WiFi 7 will be available in M4-based computers to be announced imminently through next year. Another reason to buy!
I am genuinely curious, what would interest you? We all know that smartphones are a very mature platform, and most years we are likely only going to get iterative improvements.
Most use cases, you will be hard pressed to notice a difference. That said, things will happen faster, the user experience will be smoother, the phone will use less power and be more efficient, and shouldn’t melt a hole in your pants (as quickly) as the 15 Pro. Modern computers (and smartphones are computers) are all fast. So fast, that year-over-year improvements in CPU performance is difficult to perceive, but it is there, happening in the background, allowing more to be done in the same amount of time while sipping less battery and generating less heat.
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Will this make the phone calls shorter or the bills smaller? All this technology put in a small piece of metal is brilliant. However, I am absolutely sure 99% of its owners won’t use all this functionality. Speaking of myself, it’s all the same my iPhone 12 in a newer package. The bigger screen is welcome, as well as the usb-c, though. 4 years down the road I have no need to upgrade which renders all this utterly useless to me. The new iPhone is faster than my mac mini. Blah! I don’t use the full processing power of my mini which dates from 2018.
My point is, so what?
My point is, so what?
To be fair, you talk as if x86 CPU manufacturers haven’t released anything 2019, which they obviously have.Crazy how a phone from 2024 has a faster CPU single and multi than a 6,000 computer from 2019.... (2019 Mac Pro, 8 core)
Mac Pro "Eight Core" 3.5 (2019) Specs (2019, BTO/CTO*, MacPro7,1, A1991, 3203): EveryMac.com
Technical specifications for the Mac Pro "Eight Core" 3.5 (2019). Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.everymac.com
RIP x86
Are you joking? Have you been hiding under a rock for the last five years?
YES. At least to the extent that you can run the same software, and you're not using the GPU. And you're talking about the model the OP specified (8 core). As for the GPU, I don't know - I don't remember what the base config was for the 2019 GPU, but I expect it still does better than the iPhone, because with GPUs it's all about power, and the desktop has almost two orders of magnitude more power available for the GPU. But this discussion has been about the CPU, not the GPU.
In fact, comparing the iPhone's chip to a 2019 Intel is laughable. Intel isn't shipping ANY CPU AT ANY PRICE, RIGHT NOW, that has single-core performance as fast as the iPhone 16. (I am not counting overclocking, and I am using GB6 as a reasonable stand-in for general compute performance, which is in fact a reasonable thing to do.)
Lol... someone going by "-DMN-" disagreed with this.
There is actually someone out there who approves of people shouting into forums using all caps. Who knew??
Have you seen the competition? Even a Google pixel has a better display than Apple thats how sad it is to be an iFan😂 the best decision is to buy a non apple phone and finally see what you've been missing out on for decades since Tim Apple joined
In fact, after a bit of exploration using geekbench... it looks like the A18Pro is in the same ballpark as the baseline GPU of the 2019 Mac Pro - perhaps 10% less powerful. Even with the entry-level 2019 GPU being pretty weak, that's pretty remarkable.
- Drop a photo into ChatGPT and you get the same result
- The button doesn’t provide a new function, just a different way to do something which already exists
- 99% of people don’t have a connection fast enough to take advantage of WiFi 7
- Honestly who cares about faster MagSafe charging? It cooks your phone, and the 15 Pro battery life is enough to last a whole day anyway, making fast charging irrelevant
- The 15 pro goes to 2 nit, I’m sure you’ll see the 1 nit difference buddy
- It’s literally 5% bigger, my 15 PM already lasts 12h SOT
never going to happen.. at least in PC area. we are talking about software which was build in 2 decades to get to the same lvl in arm sector even with all the new tech you need 10 years and there is still advancement in the area of x86. I think it would be more arm will dominate anything has battery and that's it. maybe servers due to lower wattage usage.
SE is the best value for money phone by far. You get a bunch of features for going up in price but it’s just such a big jump!
Buying a used SE will get you 3-5 years of phone and battery switches for the SE are half the price or less of the newer ones.
Repairability is a key feature of the lower end iPhones. If you pay Apple more, you can expect everything else to also cost more from then on.
To be fair, they might care so little that they didn’t shoo the cat off the shift key.
upgrading every year never is. if people want to upgrade, go for it, it keeps the technology wheels turning. if you're not that person though.... 2-4 years is probably more appropriate to get a decent bang for buck.
pro tip: if your phone is younger than 3 years old and you have better than 90% battery life, you're probably good for a while yet.
The A18 Pro rivaling the M1 for multi-core performance basically means they made up for the lack of 2 performance cores with architectural improvements and a better process node. That's pretty impressive (whether you need that kind of performance or not).
With me likely upgrading from a 13 Pro with the A15, basically every metric has a ~50% increase in performance (single core, multi core, GPU, NPU even more) after just 3 years.
With me likely upgrading from a 13 Pro with the A15, basically every metric has a ~50% increase in performance (single core, multi core, GPU, NPU even more) after just 3 years.