Thursday, September 20, 2012

okay, moving on to the praises for Iphone 5.
yes, yes you think its stupid and rehashed. I thought so too. theres nothing in it that jumps and bites you telling its the next bad motherfucker. well not in the way apple introduced it.
yet, I have my regards for it. for one, the Iphone has always been a very stately device. the new one much more so. the hard work and precision is evident. But its still not path breaking, I hear everyone say.
Well guess what, it fucking is. all them other manufacturers, save for samsung (that too in the international market (excluding the US market)) , source their processors (or SoCs ( System on Chip)) from mobile chipzillas like Qualcomm (for which Khet motherfucker worked and made a Billion dollars), TI and NVIDIA, which are in turn based on the designs based on the architecture maps released by ARM themselves. It was expected of Apple to do the same. Yet they didn't. the spent half a billion dollars and got to work on their own architecture based on the ARM design. and boy, the results are nothing short of breath taking.
Now for the uninitiated the, S4 Kraits  SoCs by Qualcomm are supposed to be the most advanced fucking thing of their sort by far. and mind you, thats what these Qualcomm motherfuckers do, they design chips. as the bechmark turned out the S4 was truly awesome. the dual-core version almost took on the quad-core version of the Samsung chip Exynos in the benchmark results. the fact that the Exynos was based on the dated ARM A9 architecture, may have made this anticipated. but not so much.
Naturally the question that now pops up is how is the new Apple A6? well like i said its pretty exemplary. going by what AnandTech confirmed, the A6 is a custom designed chip by apple that runs no faster than 1.2 GHz. some even claim it to run at a measly 1.06MHz. The jury is still out on that one. nevertheless the fact remains that the GeekBench benchmarks have shown the A6 to be faster than the S4 clocked at 1.5GHz, which is nothing short of amazing. its a breakthrough by a company that isn't even primarily concerned with designing chips. yet they have come up with this gem that beats the shit out of Qualcomm.
With all the marketing prowess that apple has, i cannot begin to imagine why they didn't market this. I cant wait to get my hands on the benchmarks for the GPU on this thing. Apple has always kicked buttocks in that section with their retina super high-resolution displays. One look at the graphics performance on their new Flyby 3D map app and you can rest assured you wont be disappointed. Jobs made a good choice in Cook.

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