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PCWorld: Why the iPad Pro really isn't as fast a laptop

Interesting article that interviews both Mr. Poole(Geekbench author) and Bapco. He even rolled his on winzip test:

"With the Windows machines, there were no issues. Not one. The iPad, though, gave me fits depending on the app I used. Winzip, for example, just hung even trying to decompress an encrypted file a quarter the size. I finally found an app that would work in iZipPro. It reliably decompressed the file over and over and over again without issue.

The result in my jury-rigged test? Pretty good, but no cigar. Check it out:

I timed how fast each device could decompress a 1GB file.
Keep in mind, this test is more of a system-level test than a pure CPU test. Memory bandwidth, storage performance, file system and CPU are all working for the result you see here. Once the file has decrypted the .MTS file, for example, it’s just writing a copy back to the drive as fast as it can. In this one test, the iPad Pro can’t touch even the two-year old Surface Pro 3 and its Haswell chip, but the Core M in the Dell Venue Pro 11 is just barely ahead of the iPad Pro. It’s a good show for the A9X, but a two-year Haswell chip finishes the job in half the time"

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3006268/tablets/tested-why-the-ipad-pro-really-isnt-as-fast-a-laptop.html