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I have had serious overheating issues with iOS 17 betas on an iPhone XS Max.
They do not seem to have totally gone away with the release version of iOS 17.

So IMHO it might be more of on iOS 17 problem than an iPhone 17 Pro/ A17 Pro problem.

Nice, informative article, thanks.

However "t's why macOS finally feels snappy and responsive after feeling slightly rubbery for decades." is wrong.
macOS on Intel has been snappy and responsive for quite a long time now.

The tagline is way more Dell or Samsung than Apple.
100% fake.

Thx.
It would be nice to change the title from "Intel has a faster processor than M2 Max, but at what cost?" to "Intel has a faster laptop processor than M2 Max, but at what cost?"
Intel also makes processor for desktops ...and servers. I have no doubt that many of them are faster than M2 Max.

I do question the relevance of the benchmarks, in particular regarding the optimization (or lack thereof) of apps for Apple Silicon, and in particular the use or not of dedicated silicon on Apple Silicon.
Apple Silicon has many dedicated units (such as the neural engine, ProRes or HEVC encoders/decoders) and optimization for those is not just a question of compling for Apple Silicon.

For example, I am pretty sure that Final Cut Pro is way faster than Premiere Pro on Apple Silicon, because it uses the dedicated ProRes/HEVC encoders/decoders on Apple's chips.
Similarly, I only use Apple Compressor for HEVC exports - it uses VideoToolbox and all the available silicon and that makes a big difference.

So, adding a comparison with similar tasks made on Apple software (or software used with all Apple Silicon optimizations) would add a lot of context to these benchmarks.
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Thanks for this article.
"The first device Apple chose to outfit with this standard was iPhone 4, unveiled during that same event. Every display Apple has sold since then has held the Retina standard." is not true for many non-Retina MacBooks sold at least until 2018 (MacBook Air). It is true for iPhones though.

Regarding the higher pixel density for OLED iPhone displays, I think the reason for it is that they use (AFAIK) a pentile arrangement, instead of RGB for previous iPhone displays - in a pentile arrangement, not every color has the advertised density, so you need a higher advertised density to achieve the same perceived resolution.