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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by yellowapple on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:48PM (#36923862)
"that doesn't involve GPU" is a bit of an arbitrary restriction. GPU performance is performance, is it not?
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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by extra88 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:35PM (#36924906)
Only when you're using software that can use it. Multicore processing also doesn't matter when you are doing tasks that can't be spread across cores.
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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by mlinhares on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:51PM (#36925054)
It isn’t, I work as a developer and most developers have no use for a GPU unless you’re doing machine learning or gaming. For this case Macs are really hard to beat, especially given the UNIX like environment.
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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by yellowapple on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:43PM (#36925570)
> It isn’t, I work as a developer and most developers have no use for a GPU unless you’re doing machine learning or gaming.

Okay, well

1. Not every Macbook user is a developer

2. Not every developer has no use for a GPU

If we're going to make comparisons about performance requirements for a specific subset of a specific subset of users, then let's be explicit about that. Otherwise, arbitrarily ignoring a rather substantial contributor to overall performance is indeed arbitrary.

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