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  1.  @Joe3D  Well they do have that on the server market, just not on the consumer one. And you can use virtualization on any CPU, it's just not optimized if there is no special instructions embedded. But IMHO, ARM is still a bit far from being on Apple PCs since it still doesn't provide the same performance and energy efficiency of a Celeron N. It's not like when they switched from PowerPC to x86, this will need to start with the low-end laptops first before they can switch to full ARM and the transition period will stretch to several generations.
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  2.  @Shitoryumaster  I expected this kind of comment. :) The thing is, it's impossible to correctly benchmark any Apple ARM CPU or iOS itself since iPhones are locked. Apple authorized only one bench to be on its Software library and the binary is different and non reproducible between OSes and architectures. The day Apple decides to offer the same openness than any other CPU manufacturer to run another OS, reliable comparisons of iPhones or iOS could be made. Until that it's smoke and mirrors. Geekbench like any benchmark can be fooled by the OS. Just make it launch in a priority level way higher than anything else and it gives better results than a real-world usage, or sustain a power state that normally isn't used that long because it quickly empty the battery or unlocks an unsafe overclocking state to run long term. Even more nasty way : playing with heuristic and launching the software in a bubble which makes it believe the time passes slower than in the reality. BTW, going full "big" out-of-order cores is what makes the RaspberryPi 4 so power hungry at idle comparing to the Rpi 3 or an RK3399 device. Sure, having the latest node shrink from TSMC and a good power management reduces the impact of having only big cores, as AMD showed us with Zen2, but it's still worse than shutting down the big cores and let a pair of low-power cores to handle the small tasks.
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  3.  @iamblaineful  I think this is most probable they use AMD than an ARM arch. It's less cost on software development and if they wanted they already tried to switch to ARM on their low-tier Macbook Air but they didn't whereas they claimed impressive benchmarks on A9 and A10. That means their iPhone marketing was really too good to be true and they still aren't able to use those SoCs for fluid desktop multitasking experience.
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