hackintoisier

It’s just a matter of time before the hammer drops. About time too. 

I hope Apple loses, as it is stifling competition. Why is it that apps that offer physical goods are treated differently than those that offer virtual goods? Also, how is Apple entitled to 30 percent revenue of billions of dollars of virtual good revenue, when it doesn’t cost nearly that much to run the App Store and offer the services that it does ? Also, why is it that some apps are restricted from being able to even a mention an alternative payment system? Seems draconian. 

rob53 said:

I presume these are Geekbench 5 scores so I grabbed my scores from my new iPhone 11 Pro Max and my scores were:

Single-core 1330
Multi-core 3217
Metal Score 6394

Apple A13 Bionic @ 2.66 GHz
CPU 1 processor 6 cores but not all cores full power

When I compare my iPhone to the i9 2.4GHz CPU the iPhone is significantly faster. Of course the MBP with its full power 8 cores is over twice the speed of the iPhone. With numbers like these from both Intel and Apple ARM, I can't wait to see what happens when Apple finally produces an Apple-ARM-based Mac laptop. It already has faster single CPU performance and can easily go higher once the size restrictions are removed. Actually, when you think about it, the new MBP has a native resolution of 3072‑by‑1920 compared to the iPhone's 2688‑by‑1242 so the A13 is driving a display that's not that much lower than the MBP. 

AI, why didn't you include the Metal score? I searched for the "AMD Radeon Pro 5300M" and it's nowhere to be found. 

Besides the Geekbench data point, do you also have other data points comparing the performance of the A13 chip vs Intel's chips?

Radical re-design? Come on! The only thing radically re-designed is the pricing model.

It looks the same as the last generation, features the same colors, same processor, still has the same 720 p camera, and inexplicably, still has the same Wifi 5 functionality, even though the iPhone has Wifi 6.

Then you mention Apple's 'custom SSD' controller as if it's some massive innovation. It's no faster than a standard pcie-3.0 NVME controller... and it is slower than the latest pci-4.0 ones. macOS supports standard NVME, so there's no real reason to have a 'custom controller,' other than to ensure incompatibility with standard stock nvme drives on amazon, et. al. You know to lock people in to buying a more expensive option with more storage, rather than allow us to upgrade our SSD down the line. Then the GPU is underpowered relative to nVidia's models.

However, besides the new keyboard, and I guess speakers, one area that Apple did seem to innovate is on cooling. Obviously they had to do this, given that previous macbooks suffered from throttling. But please, don't feed us this crap about this latest model being so much more innovative than the last generation. It's still missing several things.

 If anything, this generation just shows how greedy Apple was in how it priced the mid-2019 15 inch mbpro. The same base configuration on the 15 inch (RAM/Storage) was at least 400 more expensive than this model. Given the fact that processing power and Wifi functionality has remained the same (and graphics has increased), it's just a price cut really.  Which is a good thing.

A very good update.  Only thing missing is WiFi 6.  Will be interesting to see when this design will be adopted on the 13-inch platform.