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@gruber Very impressive. Wonder if this means both arches are approaching the same limits—future iPhones will have smaller improvements.

@gruber I keep wondering if that's why they haven't done much with laptop updates lately. Then I say "Nahhhhh.... That's outrageous!"

@duncan AX performance is increasing at blistering pace. Mac Pro is 1000 days old. Crazy it’s the same company.

@gruber @pmarca misleading. Multi core performance is similar

@gruber I think I might rather have battery more than performance at this point.

@isaiah @gruber @anandtech et. al has argued time-bound tasks benefit more CPU-wise…"race to idle" fast as possible architecture saves power

@judsontwit @isaiah @gruber @anandtech Now it's about duty cycling at peak efficiency for non-vital compute matters http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9582/52.jpg …

@judsontwit @isaiah @gruber @anandtech Andrei and I discussed turbo modes on smartphones in Podcast 36: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10099/the-anandtech-podcast-episode-36-mobile-world-congress-2016-snapdragon-820-and-exynos-8890 … at 17:27

@IanCutress @gruber @anandtech that’s great. but i’ll bet you a dollar you have to charge your phone before the day’s out

@gruber You know at some point Apple is going to say ‘fuck it’ and do an ARM powered MacBook of some kind. Maybe not soon, but eventually…

@Sonikku_a @gruber the problem is most closed source programs would need rewriting. Probably why #Linux is ahead with arm desktop/servers

@morgancox_uk @gruber True, but worth remembering Apple has been down this road before barely 10 years ago (PowerPC->x86).