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Apple are claiming it's faster than something like 80% of laptops sold in the last year.
Bit of a bold claim but most laptops sold will be low end, on some benchmarks ARM have been hitting around low end laptop scores since the A15.

Talking of which, this was an interesting comment:

"2016 will be the year of the ARM laptop" - Linus Torvalds.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/linus-torvalds-say-2016-will-be-the-year-of-the-arm-laptop-494044.shtml



For servers, the APM X-Gene 1 isn't exactly the best poster child as it's built on a process 3 generations behind. The results should be much better on a more up to date process. Haven't heard much recently but X-Gene 2 was due soon with 3 fairly soon after.

However, now the big boys are getting in:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/194701-qualcomm-will-enter-arm-server-market-with-major-partners-broad-solutions