• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/dex/

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrLDKYFyLMM

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963200

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A17

    The hardware is on par. Especially when you look at the apple chips. The m1 is a direct successor to the iPhone chips. Yeah they make a couple different power trade-offs. But the same chip in the MacBooks is being used in the iPads.

    I’m not saying it’s a daily driver for people today. But it’s so close

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      1 year ago

      Dude there is not a reference in the world that will convince me a current phone can remotely touch my desktop. The apple m1 barely rivals it at all but that’s not what we are talking about. Laptop does not equal phone

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        11 months ago

        You claimed it was lightyears behind to be fair, nobody said it’d be an equal to today’s gaming rigs but the gap has certainly closed a bit.

        Current phones are more powerful than a switch already, which is releasing AAA games that people are buying so some people are perfectly happy playing a game with moderate gfx and performance. I can absolutely see AAA games being designed for phones in the future and docking in a similar way.

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          11 months ago

          It being possible to use for a specific purpose is a far cry from being able to run any software you want with much better performance. That’s what being on par with means here.

          Even my m1 work laptop which is impressively fast for a laptop, is noticeably worse off than my desktop. No one is denying the progress, but no “on par” is not at all accurate

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            11 months ago

            Yes on par is stretching the truth very thinly for sure (today at least), the gap is closing though and eventually I expect phones will be running AAA games too. It will take some more large developments in phones before it’s realistically possible but I can totally see phones being “dockable” becoming the form in future, and I expect mobile gaming will have some big changes if that does happen.

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              11 months ago

              Yeah it will happen. The gap is closing, but I feel it’s slowly. I don’t expect the two form factors to converge in the next 5 years, but in 15? Sounds possible

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      Saying you could plug in a phone in place of a desktop is like saying you don’t need a car because you can just walk. Technically, they fill the sale role, but its a night and day difference in capability and just due to laws of physics, that isn’t going to change.