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Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by wintercharm on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:41PM (#21274608)
The scariest part of this is those Spec2006 scores.

A13 has single core performance on par with a 9900k or 3900X.

Apple is probably going to release ARM macs next year.

Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by ebg13 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:09PM (#21278586)
A quick read on Specspeed gives no indication that it accounts for power consumption. Does that mean you could make a 65W A13 part and completely murder everything?
Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by dmitrygr on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:53PM (#21274747)
Benchmarks aren't everything. Nvidia's Denver absolutely crushed everyone in benchmarks at the time. Real world performance was actually pretty bad.
Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by ex3ndr on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:31PM (#21276009)
iPhone X JS performance is better than latest MBP or around the same
Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:10PM (#21276513)
would be cool if you could plug an iPhone into a dock and be able to use Mac OS from it... keyboard, mouse, full display.
Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by anaisbetts on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:00AM (#21279048)
This is 100% what you can do today with a Galaxy S9/S10, https://www.linuxondex.com, plug in your phone to a USB-C dock and get a full ARM64 Ubuntu environment
Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by ne9xt on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:20PM (#21277145)
Canonical (ubuntu) tried this.. it didn't get far for some reason. I wish it did.
Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by panpanna on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:27AM (#21279721)
Canonical didn't have the resources. Neither did Motorola.

But Samsung is doing this now with some moderate success.

Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by SpikeDad on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:27AM (#21289338)
This has been tried with other phones several times. An idea without a market - no one wants to plug in their phone to get a desktop computer.
Re:The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Perfor... by randyrand on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:59PM (#21277929)
what’s the benefit over having a separate laptop with its own mouse keyboard and display?

the drawbacks are large - you lose ergonomic touchscreen access to your phone.