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Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid... by arkanciscan on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:53AM (#22977716)
Do you really suspect that Linux would run as well as iOS? Isn't iOS optimized for the A17 and vice versa? It's out of my wheelhouse, but I suspect that this synergy is the only reason they seem so fast.
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Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid... by danpeddle on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:17AM (#22977868)
From recent experience using the Pinebook Pro and manjaro, the answer is a resounding yes.

From the start, it was clear that a decent arm chip in a laptop is very usable. Paired with an SSD, and more ram, it would be killer.

MacOS would need some care to make it less heavy in terms of background consumption, but I don’t see that as being beyond Apple’s reach. Windows is a different matter, not sure what MS can bring to the table there.. The work being done right now in porting iOS applications to work on macOS clearly points to a strategy being developed.

Think it’s going to be an interesting couple of years.

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Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid... by jrockway on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:13AM (#22977841)
I am going by compute benchmarks, which should be relatively unaffected by the OS. (The OS could slow them down if it really wanted to, I guess.)

Random example: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/01/2018-ipad-pro-benchmark...

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Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid... by iNate2000 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:33AM (#22978855)
Those benchmarks don't seem to account for batteries.

I hook my 2018 MacBook Pro up to a 4K TV to present to a meeting and the battery goes down to about 35% after two hours.

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Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid... by fooker on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:43PM (#22980262)
2 hours is a reasonable amount of time for something like this.
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Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid... by captn3m0 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:15AM (#22977856)
We could optimize things for iOS if it were easy to run. Has happened for dozens of platforms.
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