We’ve come a long way, guys. In 2005, the best possible laptop you could buy from Apple scored around 1,000 on Geekbench, a popular performance testing program. The newest iPhone 5—a phone—demolishes that number.
The 17-inch PowerBook, the last of the line that preceded the current MacBook lineage, weighed in at 7 pounds, a full inch thick, and ran at least $2,500. The iPhone 5 is less than a third of an inch thick and weighs 112 grams. And as Gruber points out, its Geekbench numbers are already hitting the web, and its A6 chip delivers a score of 1,600. It also costs less than a tenth of what a flagship PowerBook would hit you back then. It’s a synthetic benchmark, sure, but there’s nothing artificial about the fact that we now walk with computers in our pockets that once filled desktops. Sci fi stuff. [Mac Rumors via Daring Fireball]
https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-custom-a6-boasts-1gb-of-samsung-ram-5943615
