i could be wrong, but i came to the same conclusion in a different way as i first heard the statement made during the announce about the power being comparable with laptops.<p>as soon as he said whatever high percentage of laptops it was i was thinking:<p>&quot;clever. people who care enough to watch this are likely to care enough about hardware to have high power laptops - as apple fanboys some macbook or other. they probably don&#x27;t even realise what kind of laptops people buy in large volume and how little horsepower they have - nor what kind of proportion of the wider market macbooks actually make up - iirc around 1 in 20, which is probably enough to exclude most of them from &#x27;90% of laptops bought&#x27; over any given period, because they are clustered  up near the top end of the range.&quot;<p>i guessed the performance might be similar to last years bottom end macbook.<p>there is also the programmer inside of me who is skeptical from experience working on low-level optimisations for x86&#x2F;64 and arm (various 5&#x2F;6&#x2F;7) code on various platforms...<p>apple are genuises at marketting imo. the cult, the fanboys, the elitism, the beauty... all of it culminates in making it difficult for people to think objectively about their products. so i&#x27;ll not be surprised if the idea of the iPad pro being a laptop killer doesn&#x27;t die - and maybe even comes into fruition. it doesn&#x27;t actually have to outperform anything if people believe that it does...