>>> They already have a mobile chip that is as fast as an active-thermally cooled notebook chip.
>> "As fast" on specific curated use cases. Show me an Apple chip that beats any laptop on 7zip.
> Is this a joke, what kind of usage benchmark is 7zipping large numbers of files?
A benchmark that Apple is unlikely to have implemented specific optimizations for, which therefore is a better test of the general purpose performance of the chip.
The situation being claimed here is sort of like if someone cited a DES benchmark to claim that Deep Crack's DES cracking chips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker) were faster than a contemporary 1998 Pentium II.
>> "As fast" on specific curated use cases. Show me an Apple chip that beats any laptop on 7zip.
> Is this a joke, what kind of usage benchmark is 7zipping large numbers of files?
A benchmark that Apple is unlikely to have implemented specific optimizations for, which therefore is a better test of the general purpose performance of the chip.
The situation being claimed here is sort of like if someone cited a DES benchmark to claim that Deep Crack's DES cracking chips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker) were faster than a contemporary 1998 Pentium II.