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| From | Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.sys.mac |
| Subject | Re: Catalina is Out! |
| Date | 2019-10-09 22:24 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <qnlj76$tn$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <hU6nF.117195$vE1.2269@fx05.fr7> <qnl5hc$9rb$1@dont-email.me> <091020191417319426%nospam@nospam.invalid> <qnlfpm$c9t$1@dont-email.me> <091020191654566132%nospam@nospam.invalid> |
On 09/10/2019 21:54, nospam wrote: > In article <qnlfpm$c9t$1@dont-email.me>, Andy Hewitt > <thewildrover@icloud.com> wrote: > >>>> For one thing they do NOT usually >>>> have all the capabilities of a full size desktop machine. >>> >>> many times they have more capabilities. >>> >>> try using a pencil with your desktop machine, or ar/vr. >> >> Never used one on any device, and I ain't likely to ever pay that kind >> of money for an electronic 'pencil'. I can't think of any task I do on >> my phone that I can't do on my iMac. > > that's fine for you, however, others find a pencil *very* useful, if > not required. > > previously, those users needed a wacom tablet, which although > excellent, is not the same as directly drawing on the display itself. That's a very specific item, and limited to those who need such a tool. > and then there's the cameras, gps, accelerometer, compass, direct > manipulation and other features that do not exist in any shipping mac. None of which are much use in a desktop machine anyway, although my iMac does have a camera. >>>> Screen size >>>> and keyboard functionality for a start, storage space and connectivity >>>> capabilities and so on, and processor performance (including GPU etc). >>> >>> recent iphones and ipads benchmark faster than most laptops. >> >> So, where did I mention laptop? > > nobody said you mentioned them, but that's what most people use. I'm not most people. >> (and which laptops are you comparing to?) > > all of them. Really? *all* of them! > <https://twitter.com/elkmovie/status/1174003718188142592> > N.B.: the highest Geekbench 5 single-core score for *any* Mac is > 1262. (2019 iMac 3.6) So the iPhone 11 now offers the fastest > single-core performance of any computer Apple has ever made. > - > The new 2019 iPads probably won't improve on that single-core > number much, but if they match the 11's increase in multi-core > performance they'll be ahead of every Apple portable except the > mid-2019 15" MBPs; a *high-end* ARM MacBook Pro seems very > much within reach. > > <https://www.howtogeek.com/393139/mobile-cpus-are-now-as-fast-as-your-de > sktop-pc/> > Apple says its new iPad Pros are faster than 92% of all portable > PCs thanks to its new A12 X Bionic chip. That¹s already really > impressive, but these are tablets. What¹s going on with phones > will blow your mind, too. > > <https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-8-benchmarks-fastest-phone,review-4 > 676.html> > The A11 Bionic chip inside the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus blows away every > other phone (and even some laptops) in synthetic benchmarks and > real-world tests. > .... > The iPhone 8 even edged out the score from the 13-inch Apple MacBook > Pro with a 7th-generation Core i5 processor. That notebook notched > 9,213. Is Geekbench 4 really comparable from phone to desktop? > According to the founder of Geekbench, John Poole, ³the short is > answer is yes that the scores are comparable across platforms, so if > an iPhone 8 scores higher than an i5, then the iPhone 8 is faster > than the i5.² Not entirely current or consistent with your comment of 'all of them', but there is some validation there (noted the comment of 'even *some* laptops'). >>>> Of course they can do an awful lot of what most users need, but IMHO >>>> nothing like as easily or with as efficient workflows. >>> >>> that depends on the task. for some things, they're *more* efficient. >> >> Not for almost anything I use a computer for. Unless it's making a phone >> call. I can't think of anything that isn't improved by using a 27" >> screen, a proper mouse/trackball, and a full size extended keyboard for >> almost everything I do. > > you do realize that others have different needs, right? Of course I do, but I can't speak for them. > an iphone or ipad fits in a pocket and can go anywhere, while a 27" > display cannot. Indeed, that's why I also have an iPhone and an iPad (although I'd be a bit pushed to get that into a pocket). > a full size keyboard works perfectly fine with an iphone or ipad for > tasks that require a lot of typing. Indeed it can, although I find a wireless Apple keyboard is not as nice to use as a full size wired one (yeah, I use both). >> Solitaire is quite easy on the iPhone though. > > an iphone can do a *lot* more than just that. Indeed so. > people shoot videos *and* edit them on iphones, then upload to youtube > or whatever, from just about anywhere they happen to be. Of course they do, I never said they couldn't do it. Not something I do though. -- Andy Hewitt
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