OMGOMG FAP FAP FAP!! Take that Intel, these Macbooks are gonna be so professional that it'll make that shittt Atom processor look like a joke and the netbooks the trash they are.

Nevermind that these will be ARM processors that will be running MacOS, iPad and iOS apps - I choose to ignore that and pretend the shitttt Android/Windoze/Surface crap is anything but garbage.

Also, keep in mind there’s a chance the scores are real and my rear end will bleed from my dad's fist.

I know, I'll just do what tech bloggers do and pretend that Windoze isn't ancient crap and that many enterprise companies have moved to iOS and iPad that can do everything that enterprise desktop software can, so I can finish fisting myself to those geekbench numbers and pretend that PCs are still relevant! Ignorance is bliss! FIST FIST FIST!!

Nice screen name dude. Marsha is a total waste of oxygen and a detriment to society.

Same benchmarks as a 300 dollar Chromebook. That is sad and pathetic.

LOL!!! You ignorant pathetic fandroid loser.

Sure, if your somehow getting a 300 dollar chromebook running an 8 core threadripper or i9.
But heres the thing. The fastest chromebook ever released was the 2015 chromebook pixel which had a multicore i7. That maxed at 17K, which this mac arm handilly flattens. These scores aren't "chromebook" range, its high end gaming CPU range or the low end of Xeon server range

WOW.
I was thinking about buying a Samsung Note until i read this article. Thanks, guys!

While it may be fast in raw benchmarks, writing actual MacOS software for this SoC could take a long time if you want to take full advantage of the CPU's native mode.

Nonsense. Its not the 1980s and nobody is writing significant assembly anymore. For the most part the only difference is throwing something like --target=aarch64-arm-none-eabi on the end of your Makefile flags, or XCode project. For games devs, its easier since 90% of games out there are Unity or Unreal and both already support ARM targets. Theres very little mainstream Mac apps developed in any of the Xamarin or whatever solutions since they rarely feel like the real thing. Developers will have to spend a few hours adjusting compiler parameters and throwing an Arm target to the existing two targets (32 bit intel for older macs, and 64 bit for later ones) For App store apps it might well be easier than that, if they submit bitcode (like they already do for ios apps, since it makes static analysis easier for compliance testiing, and since Apple can do the required translation anyway, it would mean the developer has to do literally nothing.

"Mac is already struggling against the Windows/Intel juggernaut". More nonsense. Over the past 5 years, the mac market share has gone from 7% to 12%, while windows has gone from 90% to 70%. Its not the mac thats losing ground. Apple has gone through multiple processor changes over the decades, from the 68K Motorollas, to the PowerPC line , Intel 32 and then finally Intel 64. Its Fat Binary and Rosetta systems however has largely made this an invisible affair to users. Look I'm not a fan of the ARM move, although the ability to run native ios and potentially android code (if someone ports the android userspace drivers over like is already done with i86 android) natively will be nice, but most users won't even notice.

Regardless , the end game should be obvious. If apple has a fully integrated Arm ecosystem, they can build iPhones that can dock and turn into full macs when a keyboard and screen is added. That would be the game changer.

Exactly. ARM architecture and x64 architecture are very different.

Agreed. New Mac with krap ARM chip will instantly obsolete years of x86 Mac software.

Mac is already struggling against the Windows/Intel juggernaut, switching to ARM now could be a fatal mistake for Apple.

The last benchmarks were near the i3 and now we are to believe that they made a leap to i7 speed. And the earth is flat and the sun revolves around the earth.

Its the new 7nm finFet process and crazy amounts of superscalar pipeline stuff. Apples jumped to the head of the queue by getting to 7nm first ahead of intel and arm. *everything* is changing in the world of processors

What benchmarks? That useless Geekbench, which is optimized for Apple stuff?

Whoosh...

Keyword for the wilfully ignorant: MacBook.

Shhh...they won’t let the poor dear into an Apple store, and he’s been blacklisted from normal retail outlets. How was he to know? More gruel!!!

'tis a tragic tale, to be sure.

He has spread his memes under our feet;
I tread softly, because I tread on his memes.

I wept.

Sir noob is certainly a feisty and self-confident one. I wonder how long it'll last? They burn out so quickly these days, like tiny little pieces of trash from space blazing all-too-briefly in the night sky as they arc through the Earth's atmosphere.

Seven days. Just enough for some seals or trumpets.

Heck: that's long enough for the whole world to be created, including a union-mandated rest day.

Oh, wait... yah, ummm, sorry, them be Sky Daddy days, not real ones. Meine Dummheit...

Now yer gettin’ it! Bow down!

Umm, yes sir!

Supplication_level += 1

Sky Daddy looks down on you with something approaching affection, or possibly hunger.

Saucy!

Spicy!

Saaaaaaaaaaaalacious...

Mmm.... salad

Freshly tossed, I'm sure, and served with pastor.

Mmmmmmm....pastorized....

Just don't mention that other word... that ho-ho-ho word: there might be fireworks.

Hazmat suits are available by request, and highly recommended.

That waste gonna be nuclear! Hit me, Sky Daddy, 8 to the bar!

* Nukular

"Coming, ready or not!"

Sorry about that spellin’, buddy. I ain’t had much learnin’.

Things are so advanced in schools and universities these days that you actually get learnings now. Yeah, none of that old-style singular nonsense, we're gloriously multi-faceted, interdisciplinary, facilitative, disseminative, and above all blended.

It's glorious!

Alas, it is far too late for an oldster such as myself. Too much time here has caused even more deterioration of the lobes as well...tsk.

Ah, I forgot my favourite piece of nonsense: lecturers no longer teach, which is a dreadfully abusive practice: instead they're engaged in the co-creation of knowledge with their students. Makes everyone feel both happy and clappy!

Too much time here has that effect? Oh nos! We is doomed...

Did they get rid of the New Math yet?

I think it was largely flushed from schools, and once again took up residency in the universities, where it probably belongs (and where it's just called "Math(s)"). Teachers in high school are once again free to pretend that "Math(s)" consists of knowing stupid names for different types of triangles, and higher n-gons.

Oh, man, I’m absolutely RABID over dodecahedrons!

You can call them "Dough-dees" if you like. They generally respond well to such intimations of affection. (The exception? The dodecahedral equivalent of a rubik's cube, which responds better to being thrown against a wall).

I will hug them and squeeze them, and call them George.

Take care: if you get too far into bear-hug territory you could dualize(*) the poor things, and transform them into icosahedrons.

Enuff with that fancy talk, perfesser! I has a headache.

Sorries... Sometimes it just kind of schlumpfs out...

(What a lovely word!)

Sounds like a word ol’ Eric would like the sound of.

Oh, much more than that, he lives the sound of it...

Gross.

Précisément...

This is a comparison to other Apple SoCs and not Intel..