Single Thread *Integer* Performance at 30% lower clock speed against Cascade Lake. I dont even know how anyone define "poor" Single Core performance and not "optimised" for Single Core performance, or Xeon Phi like Performance.
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Kuo: Apple to Launch Several Macs With Arm-Based Processors in 2021, USB4 Support Coming to Macs in 2022
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Single Thread *Integer* Performance at 30% lower clock speed against Cascade Lake. I dont even know how anyone define "poor" Single Core performance and not "optimised" for Single Core performance, or Xeon Phi like Performance.
I think they’re content with Mac sales volume for how much profit they make. There will eventually come a time, though, when they won’t consider it worth the effort.
I think part of the insistence of recent rumors is something that had not been a part of prior rumors... a report allegedly from Intel indicating that Apple will be moving to another processor architecture. I’ve always taken that to mean that someone from inside Intel has seen that Apple’s purchase order is far smaller than it had been historically, especially considering Apple’s 20 million per year rate of Mac sales and assumed that:
a. Either Apple will be selling FAR fewer Macs than they had in prior years, or
b. They’ll still sell Macs, but they won’t have Intel inside
There’s no Electron apps in the Mac App Store that use private API’s. This is a decision Apple made and, whether the devs like it or not, they have to abide by it if they want to keep their apps listed/available to their customers.
And, Apple wouldn’t need to recompile everything. About Bitcode, Apple said developers could “take advantage of new processor capabilities we might be adding in the future, without you re-submitting to the store.” That’s from 2015, so that would mean Apple’s been working on the potential pitfalls for at least 5 years, likely far longer than that.
...a USB charger that tells you how much power is being drawn at any given time):
Isn't the USB charger limited to output 3A x 5V = 15W?
So that 14.96W number on the chart above is the same as the 3.6 roentgens/hour radiation measument on the Chernobyl HBO's miniseries...😉
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But will they is the $64K question.
I bet they don't. And not just because they are Adobe.
Hardware version 1.0 bugs plus Software version 1.0 bugs equals hard pass for people that actually do work.
I am sure it will sell to the Candy Crush crowd, but for those of us that have work to do, probably not.
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Even if Bitcode can be used to transpile from LLVM-IR-x86 to LLVM-IR-ARM, which so far nobody has stated unequivocally it can, that leaves the problem that almost all Mac apps, including those on the Mac App Store, do not use Bitcode at all.
So that's a non-starter.
I understand that; office on Microsoft ARM (Surface Pro X) is significantly better than current Apple ARM (IOS / iPadOS).
I have no doubt Office will be fine on macOS ARM also. Today it is next to pointless on iOS etc.
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Some of Apples ARM-based iPhones cost more than x86-Macs
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Apple isn't capable of releasing a bug-free iOS, but of course Rosetta II will run smooth...
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Nobody is capable of releasing a bug-free operating system
Yeah, what I said was old news. Apple made a big leap recently, and I didn't understand Geekbench's site, but turns out they show iPhone CPUs pulling ahead of mid-range desktop ones in some ways.
I thought about that possibility too, but I checked and the standard charger that comes with the 2018 iPad Pro is 18W.
I agree that those numbers look too good to be true, but it is what it is. The A12X is a little marvel of a processor.
Can't be the iPad's standard charger, since it doesn't tell the power being drawn.
He probably used a 15W charger like this one I have here (it tells the current being drawn):
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You kind of misquoted me. I said "Let's review together the data they gathered measuring the actual power consumption (you can do this if you have a USB charger that tells you how much power is being drawn at any given time)".
Meaning you could do it like that, but they actually used something else. The review mentions using a MetraHit Energy, which lets you measure up to 16A of current by plugging the standard iPad Pro charger into the PMA16 adapter.
I look forward to this. Maybe this will finally push me off of my 2009 MacBook as a daily driver (although probably not 
).
They should bring back the iBook/PowerBook/Power Mac lines because they're switching back to a RISC architecutre (probably unlikely, but you never know). It would be a nice nod to the past for sure.
).They should bring back the iBook/PowerBook/Power Mac lines because they're switching back to a RISC architecutre (probably unlikely, but you never know). It would be a nice nod to the past for sure.
Add another USB port or 2 to the newest iPad Pro, plus the new trackpad with keyboard case, and the only big differences between it being an entry-level MacBook and an iPad are the upper layers of the OS and utilities that Apple allows to be installed. However, the larger iPad Pro + keyboard currently costs more than the entry level MacBook Air. As an advantage the iPad is faster, has a touchscreen, and runs fan-less.
Well, that’s just one “App’s must be delivered to the App Store with bitcode turned on” requirement away.
If you can’t get an update into the store without that turned on, you’ll turn it on or be removed.Steve Troughton-Smith has a blog post from May of last year where he extracts bitcode from an ARM app and compiles it for x86, so someone has shown that it’s possible.
LOL comparing them in an absolute sense is nonsense.
It always depend on the context a.k.a what workload you are targeting.
Well, that’s just one “App’s must be delivered to the App Store with bitcode turned on” requirement away.
You’d be looking at years to wait counting from the day they mandate that.
No, just like the Electron apps that use Private API’s, once they set up their automated server to reject apps that use it, it’s done.
Starting posts with “Wrong.“ makes you sound arrogant and unnecessarily argumentative. I know tone doesn’t always come across as intended online and across cultures so I’m just letting you know.
You know this for a fact? I wasn’t aware it had been revealed that their ARM processors would be passively cooled.