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iPhone 14 Pro Max review: Apple's best gets better
Not meaning to be overly negative, but it does seem that Apple’s A-chip development is finally reaching a level of equilibrium in terms of yearly power bumps. After a decade of spectacular year-to-year jumps in performance, we’re seeing much more modest improvements to the tune of about 5%, as opposed to the beginning years of 50% bumps.I guess the party had to come to and end eventually. Apple’s engineers were able to identify wide swaths of untapped potential and inefficiencies in the original ARM architectures to take a huge lead in smartphone processing, but it may be that we’ve reached a point of diminishing returns.Even on the iPad/laptop side, Apple is moving in the same direction as Intel/AMD by focusing on increasing/scaling chip sizes and numbers of cores to push performance.
Before anyone thinks I’m being anti-Apple, I’m just making an observation. I fully acknowledge the fantastic leaps and bounds that they’ve been able to make in the field, and I am in no way discounting further innovation potential for the future. I look forward to that happening.
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Apple introduces iPhone 14 & iPhone 14 Plus -- with satellite connectivity
"You DO need one, and you're going to like it!" - Appleabujazar said:They're way too big. Even my 12 mini is way bigger than I need. I don't need a laptop in my pocket. The iPhone 4 size was perfect.
Kidding aside, I'm in the same boat. Have a 12 mini and still have my original SE hanging around the house, and I'm shocked at how small and pocketable that thing is. I appreciate a larger size when I'm lounging around with my phone, but I miss the smaller size when I'm on-the-go and trying to one hand it. This is why I have an iPad and a laptop for more substantial use scenarios.
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New leak shows exactly how big the Apple Watch Pro is
I feel the same. The current Series 5 that I own is perfectly fine from a size standpoint. I can see pushing the display out to the edges like the Series 7, but I never find myself really wishing that I’m not getting enough information.Part of why I have the watch is to reduce my reliance on having to handle/glance at my phone. Small and discrete is nice.retrogusto said:Question for watch owners: do you find yourselves wishing it were bigger in daily use? For me, the benefit of having multiple devices that can perform similar functions (desktop, laptop, iPad, phone, watch) is that ideally each is optimized for specific use cases, which for the watch means being as compact as possible but always readily available on the wrist. I’m not looking for more functional overlap at the cost of reduced optimization; I don’t need or want to read the news on my watch while lying on the couch at home, if it means that the rest of the time I’m carrying around something bulkier than it needs to be.
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New leak shows exactly how big the Apple Watch Pro is
Seems like the same iterative process. The iPhone (and smartphones) started out reasonably small, and slowly crept up to become phablet sized. Just like many things in life, the general public has an insatiable demand for bigger. Larger homes, larger vehicles, larger televisions, larger meals, and larger phones. Seems like the easiest way to drum up interest is to simply provide a larger product.
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Compared: New 2022 iPad Air vs 2020 iPad Air
The 7,219 multi-core score is a little over 60% faster (more) than the 4,210 multi-core score.mangakatten said:The 11-inch iPad Pro with an M1 processor runs a 1,706 single-core and 7,219 multi-core score in Geekbench. This is with the 8-core M1 processor.
Meanwhile, the iPad Air 4 with A14 Bionic scored a 1,583 single-core and a 4,210 multi-core score. The A14 Bionic has a 6-core processor, explaining the lower multi-core scoreI really don’t understand how Apple got that 60% faster number from. I guess we will have to wait and se when the benchmarks will come.
