Are Apple’s ARM chips better for the consumer ?
Apple’s Mac devices have been using Intel processors since 2005. More than 15 years have passed since this partnership was first announced and now that apple’s chips have proven the all time promised best performance which was one of the reasons for their great sales in phone and tablet department and this was also one of the reasons why they have announced their transition to their ARM chips. This still keeps one big question; Is it actually going to be good for the consumers who will become early adopters to these devices?
This is a very important topic for the tech savvies out there so if you’re not one of them you should still read this article because you deserve to know, especially if you’re thinking about buying a new laptop.
This whole apple vs. all the other brands thing has existed since apple became a famous company and became a competitor to all the other brands that existed before it or the ones that were already in the business before them such as Sony, Samsung, Microsoft and even the ones that came after them like Huawei and Oppo. This also made it the pinnacle of tech as it always made the best everything really; other than the butterfly keyboard switches of course, all this built a huge integrity that until now is still building up actually.
All this good quality didn’t skim over their processors which is what this entire topic is hovering around. let talk about the intel chips first; ever since Intel was created, it was and is always known for its powerful processors which are actually great based on my personal experience at least until they put all their focus on satisfying PC’s and to be specific here I’m talking about the gaming ones not the 2in1 desktop which Microsoft is producing aka the surface studio not the work ones that are used by any normal employee. Because gaming is one of the most popular things in the world that we live in right now is all locked down and most of the students aren’t attending school because all schools are shut down and what else would you expect from ignorant teens who never want to go to school do homework or sit any exams other than playing video games while sitting on their couches and ordering pizza every day and gaining 20 pounds in one sitting because of how much pizza they eat. I don’t blame the company for focusing on PC’s and gaming stuff but that also doesn’t mean that people who have jobs don’t deserve devices that perform even better than those used by gamers and I’m not talking about secretaries or anyone whose job is to jus type, copy and paste stuff from the moment they’re at work until the end of their work schedule ( I’m one of those people ), I’m talking about the creatives and those with related job titles like industrial designers and engineers or students who are studying to take a bachelor’s degree in a job that requires a device with lots of power to handle it (I’m one of those too). These are the people who deserve that last bit of power that their processors can produce. If you see this Intel please listen to your customers and do whatever they like best. I don’t mean that you shouldn’t listen to gamers; I’m saying that you should listen to other people too because you guys are already listening to gamers but at the same time, you’re ignoring all the other people.
Now for the apple chips, no matter what kind of device you use you’ve probably seen or even used an apple device that uses their chips before whether it’s an iPad, iPhone or an apple watch. and if you have never used an apple device you should actually do because they’re that good but that’s not the topic for this article. this article is all about the performance of their processors and so I will compare the iPhone 11 pro’s A13 bionic chip to the 10th generation intel core i5 in the MacBook Air and the iPad pro’s A12Z bionic chip to the 10th generation Intel core i9 in the MacBook Pro.
All data collected and compared is from Apple Devices only. Apple’s iPad pro chip does a whopping Geek Bench multicore score of 4680 and the i9 does a 4922 multi core score which is not that much better than the iPad which basically means that an iPad chip would be enough if it was put into a much better thermal design like the MacBook Pro and the iPhone’s A13 bionic chip does a multi core score of 3200 and the i5 in the MacBook Air does a desperate 2188 and if the A13 bionic is fitted into the MacBook Air will perform really well.
Now let’s talk about the batteries because apple’s chips are also known for their mind bogglingly incredible power efficiency and if their current lineup of the A series chips is fitted to their Mac lineup the battery time is going to be all day. This is thanks to their incredible engineers and software developers for designing them to be so power efficient.
Let’s talk prices, now that we have discussed the performance my final verdict on these chips is because they’re all made in house and not bought from another manufacturer is that they will cost them and us less so maybe we’ll see a $799 MacBook Air and a $999 MacBook Pro all base model and perform the best so we won’t need any upgraded models on anything but the screen which is already fantastic. My recommendation to anyone who’s looking forward to buy a Laptop is to wait until the new Mac device comes out which I think it’s going to be a 14" MacBook Pro because it didn’t get a great chip upgrade or a screen upgrade for the base model since forever and then they’d buy it and I’m pretty confident that everything is going to be the best.
