I don't know when, "turning mobile phones into PCs" has become the vision of countless technology fans. Many manufacturers are sweating on this road, such as the old Motorola expansion dock mode, Microsoft Nokia Lumia desktop mode, Samsung DeX, Huawei desktop mode, and Hammer TNT. The latest revelation on July 1 shows that Apple is also trying to turn the iPhone into a computer.

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The source of the disclosure is MauriQHD of Twitter, a technology enthusiast from Argentina, who has only a few thousand followers for the time being. His Twitter on June 26 mentioned that "iPhone running macOS", "Apple is testing the prototype of Linda/Dex" and other messages.

When Apple announced that the iMac and MacBook would run macOS with the self-developed ARM processor Apple Silicon, many technology enthusiasts thought that if Apple's entire platform is ARM, does that mean that iPhone can also run desktop systems like Lumia's "mobile PC two in one" device? And still full of macOS?

For Apple, the "desktop mode" of iPhone can dramatically increase the share of macOS, and can provide users with a desktop experience that is far more mature than the previous "mobile PC two in one" scheme. This is undoubtedly an extremely exciting idea. To be honest, even I and other loyal Android+win users were shocked when they heard that it would be too strong to do so. I will consider changing camp.

This story catered to everyone's expectations, so it was reproduced explosively worldwide. But in fact, the source of the news is not very reliable, and even if the iPhone can run macOS, there will be problems in fluency in the last year or two.

At the end of June, A12Z had scored in the GeekBench test on the desktop platform. This powerful flagship iPad chip, due to the loss and power limitation of platform conversion, is far from the current X86 processor mainstream level, although it has defeated the Surface Pro X, a SQ1 chip customized by Microsoft and Qualcomm, on the Apple DTK development kit (which can be used as the Mac Mini with ARM). Can the future A14/A15 be better than A12Z? And how much better?

However, in any case, I also hope that this is true, after all, this future is too exciting. Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm, Intel and various mobile phone manufacturers really have to work hard. If Apple is really crazy and still makes it, many old fans will have to switch to the camp # manual doge to ensure safety #.

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