iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip

Seems like an obscene amount of computing power for a phone. Who is pushing their phone that hard? Majority of people just want to send/receive texts and scroll through Instagram.

This might seem like obscene fast <i>now</i>, but remember, most people replace their phone only when the battery dies, not when next years model comes out.<p>In other words, thanks to the “overkill” that Apple is willing to sell now, their user five years down the line will <i>still</i> feel that their old phone is a premium product. And they’ll be happy to buy a replacing iPhone for it when it does die.

&gt; It sure is a shame that we can’t do more with this power. I think it’d be really cool to be able to plug in your iPhone to an external USB-C monitor and run Stage Manager with an external mouse and keyboard.<p>Even if Apple did this (they won&#x27;t) having to use Stage Manager for multitasking would make it intolerable anyway.

Which is exciting, except for the fact that this much computing power is useless on a phone. You can&#x27;t even do &#x27;real&#x27; multitasking, and your applications are incredibly limited.

All of this computing power and it will still barely be able to load web pages without an ad blocker.

&gt;It sure is a shame that we can’t do more with this power. I think it’d be really cool to be able to plug in your iPhone to an external USB-C monitor and run Stage Manager with an external mouse and keyboard. Maybe one year.<p>To dissipate heat you need volume&#x2F;mass to soak it and surface area to dissipate it. Phones will never have the volume&#x2F;mass or surface area to compete with normal size computers.

This shouldn&#x27;t be too surprising, should it? The M1 itself is a somewhat scaled up phone CPU. Four years later the baseline has caught up to scaled up.

Well Apple build a super slim notebook with A18 Pro chip that will have insane battery life :)

Faster processing means less time-to-sleep means better battery life.

I&#x27;d like to see them sell a dock and turn the phone into a full blown gaming console that you can pick up and take with you, like the Switch.

Just let people plug their phone into a dock and make it a full desktop. That’s a killer business feature, never own a laptop again.

Crazy times... also newest Snapdragon 8 gen 4 is apparently a bit slower in single core but faster in multicore compared to it, so practically no performance gap across the market, then it boils down to various optimizations.

Microsoft should develop a dock that you plug this phone into to activate monitor &#x2F; keyboard and mouse with the full office suite.<p>Maybe the dock has a little bit of extra ram to facilitate.

I just want to have my computer plug into my monitor and transform into a desktop. I’ll pay twice as much to have one device capable of adapting to every form factor.