Posts by Shrike

Quote: Originally Posted by mjtomlin Because Apple writes the OS and designs the A5, they can put specialized processors on the chip to handle certain tasks that can be offloaded from the main CPU. For example, the A5 contains an ISP...

The PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU is class leading. Hands down, no doubt about it. 2x more than anything currently on the market. The dual-core A9 CPU is really good. But it is still at ~800 MHz. Fortunately, Apple does an awesome job of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Loptimist How do we know if it is not something to do with webkit on iOS 5? I mean, I just ran the test, and I scored about the same 52000ish on iPhone 4 with iOS 5. Like everyone is saying, it's both a...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrSLY I want to know what's the actual clock speed of the iPad 2 then? 1 GHz. But it is aggressively power slewed to conserve battery. So it is dependent on workload. It is likely that the chip only hits 1...

Quote: Originally Posted by libertyforall Where on the company's website is this updated? I could not easily find it... The image has been 'shopped to include the alleged iPhone 4S browsermark score.

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Look at the iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0. Even with a processor that's far slower than the Tegra, iPhone holds its own. That says a LOT about software efficiency. Sunspider and Rightware Browsermark are...

Sunspider and Browsermark are javascript benchmarks. It's not an indication that everything in the phone will be faster, only javascript code. Most of the gain came in iOS 4.3. iOS 5.0 supposedly uses the same rendering architecture as...

Quote: Originally Posted by linkgx1 That's IF Siri extremely successful. Again, it would only be limited to phones....so I'm not sure how Google would lose money. Google is the number 1 search engine. Yeah, but phones will be the...

Quote: Originally Posted by linkgx1 Siri won't be and is not Star Trek good. We are still very off from that. Apple doesn't even have a search engine of it's own. Google has an entire algorithim that Apple doesn't have. Maybe Apple...

Quote: Originally Posted by 1swift Is there any data on ATT's progress on their 14.4 network? Any locations that supposedly have it? Just check attwireless.com. My eyeballs say they've got coverage for most of the high population...