[HN Gopher] M1 iPad Pro over 50% Faster Than Previous Generation...
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       M1 iPad Pro over 50% Faster Than Previous Generation in Early
       Benchmarks
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-05-11 20:09 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Synaesthesia wrote:
       | Well considering the last one was already very powerful, that's
       | really impressive. But the "desktop" experience is still quite
       | lacking.
       | 
       | Someone speculated about jailbreaking these and running Mac OS on
       | them, that would actually be pretty great for productivity.
        
         | randcraw wrote:
         | But not exactly keeping up with Moore's Law, is it? (Or Dennard
         | scaling, if you're a righteous nerd).
         | 
         | I remember when we yawned at any new CPU that wasn't at least
         | 100% faster. Now 50% faster is "insanely great"?
         | 
         | Well, it could be worse. At least, we're no longer bedeviled by
         | growing bloatware or slowing languages...
        
           | dmitrygr wrote:
           | "50% faster in the same thermal and power envelope" has
           | always been impressive. When CPUs were gaining 100% per year,
           | they were often growing their power use just as fast, if not
           | faster.
        
       | askafriend wrote:
       | I bet Xcode and possibly other pro apps are coming to iPad -
       | probably will be announced at WWDC.
        
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