![]() ![]() The iPad started out as an Apple engineer fiddling around with a capacitive touchscreen and seeing what could be done with it. The iPhone started life as a cut down (size wise) iPad prototype. That isn't the point of prototypes and design concepts - the point is to try new things, see what works, see what doesn't, and then use those lessons to inform new designs that will make it to production. Sure, a lot of what goes into a prototype and a design concept never gets built. "What can we do, if we remove all of these constraints and think outside the box a bit?" When (not if) software is optimised for ARM and starts pushing the hardware to the limit, I suspect the x86 chips will look really bad.Ĭlick to expand.Pushing boundaries. In my real world experience, based on years now, Apple's processors tend to sit around like Sonic the Hedgehog tapping his foot while the Intel chips is seating and gasping for breath.ĭon't get me wrong, x86 chips do work "fine" and get the job done, but I suspect a lot of that is because software is still tuned for x86, which is likely why my ARM chips are mostly idle even under high load. But real world software is not the same as benchmarks and there's other - operations going on in between CPU activity - especially memory operations which benchmarks don't tend to test very well. And on a benchmark, my laptop's CPU draws a lot of power (it could theoretically drain the battery in minutes). On a benchmark, Intel's servers look like they're a bit faster than my laptop. And it's faster than a best-money-can-buy x86 server. And surely a fair chunk of that goes to the LCD, not to mention web browser, IDE, etc. If you do the math, nearly 20h battery life means my laptop draws well under 3 watts in total. ![]() Oh, and you can buy this laptop for about what it costs to rent the server for two weeks. I write server side software and it's pretty annoying when I deploy software on an intel server, and it runs slow compared to the laptop - which is fanless and runs for almost 20 hours off a 50Wh battery. Having used Apple's hardware for a while now, I disagree. ![]()
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