tipoo

A Turing GPU would certainly be one way the Mac Pro could differentiate itself from the iMac Pro. If Apple and Nvidia got over their battle for control over the universe. 

This rainbow technology using seven bands of light sounds very cool, would be a huge leap up from competitors with just green or red heart rate trackers. 

Curious about the positioning. It's rumored to have a retina screen, but also come in under the 12"s price? That seems odd, unless it's the 12" that drops to the Air's price slot while this replaces it.

Anyways, being largely like the 12 but for using the extra space for another USB C port, and of course the third gen butterfly keyboard, would be good by me. 

payeco said:

I’m curious what the ratio of software to hardware is in Apple’s benefit in their performance superiority. Like, how much is it because Android is a resource hogging, inefficient OS compared to iOS; and how much is because the silicon is superior to everyone else on the market? 

The OS shouldn't interfere much with low level benchmarks like Geekbench, while graphics test that use Metal may benefit from that if Vulkan isn't used on Android. 

The silicon is flat superior though on the CPU, Apple makes 6-wide processor cores while everyone else was playing with 2-4, and are still on 4-wide in most cases. Except for that last Exynos, but that seemed to take too much power and couldn't put the performance down on the ground. People have kept saying iPhones winning on benchmarks was because iOS was light and it did it with lesser hardware, but it was also because the silicon was just better and bigger. Less cores, but each twice as big as the competition, that's what some youtubers never understood lol. 

slurpy said:

tipoo said:

Their silicon team continues to impress me, but I start to wonder what that gets us when iOS has been dropping frames on animations since iOS7, and with iOS11 started losing out in memory residency tests for multitasking too. 

Hopefully 12 fixes all this and it doesn't go back in future versions, but the silicon team must hate how much the software team hides their performance. The near doubled single core score is a silicon junkies curiosity but it should have been putting the UX way further ahead than it is.



I see Samsungs "water cooling" again just meant a heat pipe though. 

I can't relate to this comment at all. My iPhone 7 is buttery smooth, I've never noticed any skipped animation or interface lag. 

And some people absolutely can't, but Apple came out and said it was a bug in the next frame prefetching. I'm glad its being fixed, but for people who notice, that was a slightly annoying 4 years.