Are laptops with 8th gen Intel CPUs a blessing or a curse?

[Premal212]

Wha?

Your iPhone talks to the cell network using Edge, 3G or LTE virtually anywhere in the world. It provides location services using triangulation, GPS and GLONASS. It has a touchscreen, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, NFC and a compass. It has multiple cameras and (if it's an X) 3D facial recognition. It fits in your pocket, runs all day on a charge, and benchmarks better than many laptops.

It's the Mac that looks a little skimpy by comparison...

That’s a nice arguement there not going to lie. But I think I probably spoke for myself when I compared the two. What I can get done on my Mac vs what I can achieve on my phone are miles apart. I suppose if I was recording 4K non stop and some of the other stuff then yeah.

But in terms of usable performance, at least for me. Mbp wins by far, I guess everyone’s mileage varies.

 

[shaunp]

If I need many cores, I would rather get a quad-core ultra-portable and build a workstation with more than 6 cores.

I did a similar route - laptop for on the move and workstation for home office. I went for a thicker laptop though as I found the noise of thinner laptops too much, even if they did support good amounts of RAM. However I would now be tempted by the Lenovo X1 Carbon Extreme.

 

[maflynn]

Your iPhone talks to the cell network using Edge, 3G or LTE virtually anywhere in the world. It provides location services using triangulation, GPS and GLONASS. It has a touchscreen, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, NFC and a compass. It has multiple cameras and (if it's an X) 3D facial recognition. It fits in your pocket, runs all day on a charge, and benchmarks better than many laptops.

Apples to oranges comparison.

I can create a list of what the MBP can do, that the iPhone can. Both are for very different tasks.

The MBP can have up to 32GB of ram, drive multiple monitors. has USB-C, can easily run multiple apps at the same time, not the hamstrung multitasking that its in iOS.

The phone is great, but so isn't the MBP, both in their own right