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Apple planning lower cost MacBook Air for second quarter of 2018
What makes the most sense to me -
-Air goes away, Macbook takes over 999 starting tier
-Non touchbar/two TB3 Macbook Pro just becomes the 13" Macbook, maybe introduces a non retina display as a further budget model as this rumor.
-Macbook Pro is differentiated by touchbar, 4 ports, and now ULV quad cores
Without paring down the line like that, it becomes redundant and un-Apple with a 13" Air, 13" Pro, 13" new budget model, and 12.9" Macbook. -
Apple explains iPhone battery throttling to Canadian parliament, says not planned obsolesc...
foregoneconclusion said:tipoo said: The main issue was not sending a user notification as soon as performance was reduced that a new battery would restore the old speed.
Their note on the shutdown workaround was in a single patch versions notes, which few regulars would read, and it was also vaguely worded, iirc something more like "Manages power delivery around peak loads", which doesn't really tell you that your 6S could perform half as well as it had before.
The expected life for charge cycles isn't even the issue here, and nor were those two things what caused the 6S bad battery batch. -
Apple explains iPhone battery throttling to Canadian parliament, says not planned obsolesc...
I fully believe the explanation that it was to prevent shutdowns, as phones that don't do this, often just...Well, shut down.The main issue was not sending a user notification as soon as performance was reduced that a new battery would restore the old speed. Doubly so for the 6S's that went out with bad batteries, they have a repair program for that but no user notification, so I bet more people are just using slowed 6S's that should be perfectly competent performers, than those that knew about the program. -
Consumer Reports pegs Apple's iPhone X & 8 Plus as having best smartphone cameras
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Early benchmarks shows Samsung Galaxy S9 well behind iPhone X in processor performance
mjtomlin said:Actually the single-core performance is impressive over the previous version. But there is a catch here. That single-core performance is only achievable when one core is being used. Core performance degrades by as much as 33% when all four cores are being used.
Apple has been killing it when it comes to single core performance since the A7. So it begs the question, is this another case of Samsung playing the ,"Hey look! Me too!" game? It also makes you wonder why Anandtech failed to report multi-core benchmarks!?
I wish Anandtech would get around reviewing the A11 already.Whether that's a me too attempt to cheaply catch up to the A11s appearance on single core tests, in truth that's how a lot of modern processors work now anyways. Look at Intel CPUs, the reason they don't give up single core performance on much more multicore processors is because one core can boost to lets call it 10, two cores can boost to 9, etc etc. So before an 18 core processor would give up a great deal of single threaded performance, now if only one core is active it'll boost up as high as it'll go.So single core boost isn't really a cheat so much as a valid tactic, but whether Samsungs in specific is useful needs more testing. They're either power limited or else the new scheduler still has teething issues, we'll have to see with two production units.
What's truly impressive is that Apples massive single core performance seems mostly additive, with only slight losses per core with all cores engaged. A11X rumored with three big and five little cores is going to be yummy...And possibly make things look increasingly uncomfortable for ULV CPUs even with fans.
I wish for Anandtechs A11 deep dive too, Apple has been shipping a fully custom GPU for months and no one else has seen fit to look into it...