I'm well aware of the TDP issues G5 had. You're missing the subject, though. Subject is how apple handled the ppc->amd64 tansition in terms of performance. TDP has nothing to do there.
Yeah, I guess I am missing the point. I see the G5 as an architecture that fundamentally misunderstood where the future of computing was going. I do think TDP matters here. The thrust of Jobs' pitch from that WWDC stage was performance per watt.
No. I'm not going to edit video on my phone and I'm a professional video editor lol. I use my phone for web browsing, basic apps watching video, messaging, and the occasional gaming. None of those require an over clocked i7.
Now maybe in the future we'll have crazy AR experiences generated by our phones and the processor will be key to delivering that experience but today none of that exists.
So I don't care. Phones today are already really snappy. My phone is is like 4 years old now and while it definitely gets laggy it's usually quick enough. I've used a Note 8 and it's blazing fast. Fast enough for a phone.
But there was a point where you phone was too slow to do any of the things you use it for now, yes? If we had this conversation 12 years ago, would you have laughed off the idea of web browsing or watching video from your phone?
I think, as a video editor, you might be thinking about editing video on a phone from the wrong perspective. When smartphones got performant enough to efficiently edit photos, we didn't start doing photoshop on our phones, we started using Instagram filters. When phones get the ability to efficiently handle 4K video, we aren't going to be running Premiere on our phones, we are going to be harnessing that power in a way that makes sense on a phone. Computational photography is in it's infancy and computational videography will soon stand beside it.
I've been following tech for over 30 years and the people who have taken the position that
X hardware is fast enough have always been proven wrong. Always.
