iPhone 7 Series is Faster Than Any MacBook Air Ever Made

[Stella]

I don't care if people disagree with me. However, there is a threshold to sounding like you've been taken in by the reality distortion field.

The A10 is a great processor - but in day to day reality of running against an competent PC ( $400 can get you a competent PC ) with the same software ie windows - is it going to be the better performer - probably not.

Benchmarks do not reflect day to day real use, especially when comparing mobile vs 'desktop'. It's apple vs oranges.

Who needs facts when you can insinuate that anyone who disagrees with you is a fanboy?

 

[Michael Goff]

I don't care if people disagree with me. However, there is a threshold to sounding like you've been taken in by the reality distortion field.

The A10 is a great processor - but in day to day reality of running against an competent PC ( $400 can get you a competent PC ) with the same software ie windows - is it going to be the better performer - probably not.

Benchmarks do not reflect day to day real use, especially when comparing mobile vs 'desktop'. It's apple vs oranges.

You could be right. I'm just saying numbers trump doubts and you just have doubts. Claims without facts are pointless.

 

[symphara]

I think there's a good chance that this comparison is meaningless. The numbers don't seem comparable across CPU architectures, and they probably aren't comparable across different operating systems.

 

[toke lahti]

So when will we be getting phones capable of running osx when docked to a keyboard and monitor?

Pretty much same time when we get reasonably featured, reasonably priced, upgradeable mabooks.
Never.
Instead we get macbooks with iOS, yucks!
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So no - the smallest of iPhones has a higher resolution than the largest of MacBook Airs.

And this is why Air does not need upgrade on display...

 

[ForkHandles]

So when will we be getting phones capable of running osx when docked to a keyboard and monitor?

Even better, keep running iOS when docked into the keyboard and monitor, it's as good as it needs to be for productivity but......

Dock the iPhone in such a way that it becomes a trackpad for the desktop solution!

Can I patent that idea?

 

[waitandwait]

iOS apps can run processes in the background when they are not active. The bottleneck there is the lack of memory on iPhones.

iOS can still run processes in the background like downloading from dropboxes. You can change the settings you know?

 

[NY Guitarist]

Dock the iPhone in such a way that it becomes a trackpad for the desktop solution!

Can I patent that idea?

I like this idea! The Apple Remote app already exists so I could see an app to turn an iPhone into a trackpad.

Better hurry on that patent application

 

[bruinsrme]

Sure, but at least the MacBook Air has a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Who in the world needs to charge their device and listens to audio at the same time. For those that do should pay extra to have that luxury. /s

 

[JGRE]

x64 is abbreviation for 64bit x86 instruction set, hence the 'x'. If you are just ********ing, then sorry and please keep going while you're at it.
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Ring ring: you are retarded. Like I said in one of my previous comments, x64 is the abbreviation for 64bit x86 instruction set - right now it isn't natively supported by ARM processors.

Ring, ring: don't remember that I was talking to you in the first place. Please go and annoy another forum, if you can only insult people.

Btw: "The two processor architectures are mutually exclusive: a program that’s built for x86/x64 can’t run on ARM under any circumstances, and vice versa." I rather missed the "X" then making a comment that doesn't make sense in the first place, but I guess thats you.....

 

[mateytate]

Can I patent that idea?

Probably not now

 

[iSee]

"iPhone 7 Series is Faster Than Any MacBook Air Ever Made"
Except the really fast one...

No, the A10 is faster.

The multicore mark is virtually identical and the A10 handily beats it in the single core. The single core is generally the more important one since only specific types of operations implemented using the right kinds of algorithms benefit from multiple core.

Misleading title is misleading.

Confused MR member is confused.

 

[John Dor]

There's a simple bottom line here: the synthetic benchmark comparing two wildly different processors that are only barely comparable says the iPhone 7 has a higher score. That means little in reality. In terms of work actually done, such as editing videos or other comparable tasks, a high-specced MacBook Air will wreck any phone out there. The tiny, low-power processor on a phone just can't match the larger, heavy-duty processor in a competent laptop. The phone may still feel more responsive- its running a much less demanding software and has less going on in the background then your average laptop. In that sense, you could say that phones are faster. But when you are dealing with complex CPU-heavy tasks, such as gaming, phones will never match laptops or desktops. It's easy physics- when the processor has a fan or other method of dealing with the tons of heat a loaded processor puts out, it can do more work without overheating. That is one of the reasons that laptops can so easily outpace phones. Conclusion: modern laptops will always be faster than modern phones. As an addendum, it's unlikely that Apple will put an Ax series chip in a MacBook, if only because they've been so stubborn in the past about any sort of hybrid iOS and OS X.