This is less and less true as time goes on, and only for either heavily parallelized processes, processes that require ENORMOUS amounts of memory, or processes that require extreme amounts of GPU. Even then, the GPU gap is getting smaller if you're not talking about gaming.

I compile Unreal Engine for my job. I do it a lot. My M1 Mac Mini, 5 years old, keeps up astonishingly well with my work-issued i9. I'm sure an M5 would blow it out of the water.

I'm sure there are workloads where what you're saying is true, but I don't think you can make this as a broad claim anymore. M-series chips aren't low-powered chips, they're higher efficiency chips. They do more with less. I don't look at benchmarks from Apple (or Intel), either--I only pay attention to benchmarks from 3rd parties, and they're still quite favourable. Aside from gaming--where we ABSOLUTELY optimize the hell out of things, and tune things specifically to hardware as best as we can--most general purpose software that runs on both runs within a totally acceptable margin either way.

In the Mac space, a lot of malware just gives up if it detects Little Snitch is running. It's a really effective tool, and honestly, the cost is so minimal compared to the value. I've been running it for years, and I appreciate how much junk traffic I can block.

If one of the six hydrocoptic marzel vanes fails and is no longer mounted to the lunar wane shaft, side fumbling will no longer be effectively prevented!

"Michael Marshall Smith's 1996 novel Spares, in which the hero liberates intelligent clones from a "spare farm", was optioned by DreamWorks in the late 1990s, but was never made. It remains unclear if the story inspired The Island, so Marshall Smith did not consider it worthwhile to pursue legal action over the similarities."

Anyway, we're all saying the same thing here. This is all Torment Nexus stuff. We know how this ends.

1. Fertilizer is made from methane, so that's also stuck there. This is a HUGE problem for countries like India.
2. Poor countries are already switching to 4 day work weeks to save fuel.
3. Iran is letting ships whose balances are settled in Yuan leave. That means the power of the petro-dollar is under serious threat.
4. Countries that can no longer get Iranian oil are now buying non-Iranian oil, which drives the price of ALL oil up. There's speculation that it will hit $200/barrel. That's more than 3x what it was over the last few years. That will affect the price of literally everything. All transportation costs go up, so costs for all goods go up.

At some point, the price will get high enough that some countries won't be able to buy it at all, they'll give up. At that point, some interesting things might happen, since the demand drop-off vs. the price drop off will cause a wobble in the price. People will start looking elsewhere for energy.

Solar and small-battery vehicles (e-bikes, e-scooters) might start taking off even more. You might not be able to buy petrol for your car, but your e-bike charges quickly and can still tow a few hundred pounds worth of stuff. Maybe BEVs adoption will become even MORE popular, since it's one less way you have to directly pay for petrol.

But this war is all con. 100%. Like, Trump didn't even fill up the oil reserves before going to war. China's been buying oil for MONTHS at low rates now, so they're actually the least impacted here, despite the fact that they get a lot of oil from Iran. That means they have zero impetus (not that they had much previously) to do anything about this. This is purely punishment for the USA. Those are expensive weapons being wasted on Iranian targets (in some cases, planes that are actually just paint on the ground). It might be possible for the USA to open up the strait again, but the second they leave, Iran can just close it off again. This might be the most forever of the forever wars, or it might just be an outright defeat for the USA.

This whole thing is such a mess on so many different axes. I didn't even get into how Israel is driving a lot of this, and it's all because Netanyahu is a corrupt warmonger. He's firing in all directions, and he's relying on the USA to protect him.

It wasn't just to maintain value for their corporate properties, it's because they love seeing people in the office, doing their bidding. They'd be able to save so much on capital expenditure if everyone worked from home, but they keep people in the office because they looooooove to see who they're oppressing.

Yeah, there was just fuel rationing and it FUNDAMENTALLY changed the car industry for decades? Big cars went out of style and Japanese econoboxes became a thing because people wanted to spend less on gas?

I get it, you were a KID in the 70s, so you didn't really understand what was going on and what the challenges were. But you could go and read about them now if you want--you're probably north of 50, I think you're ready to learn the truth.

I sent him the design documents of the Smart Phone that got Warren Buffet to sell $133 billion in Apple.

Yes, I'm a thing... I designed the Smart Phone in 2000 to fight now the surveillance state we're in now.

I'm James Sager, the brains behind Steve Jobs... Want to see proof: https://techaform.com/

If you run regedit, you can see the key of any facing computer and use it on your home computer.

The entire idea of keys is flawed. You can't actually use these and expect security. So Bill 'Bioterrorist/Scopex/Cancer meat/Brain on a Chip/Little kid banging Epstein' Gates is jailing others from his own mistakes?

Priceless

TouchID is a nice-to-have, not a must-have. I have a Mac Mini and I have no way to get TouchID on this thing and it doesn't make it a bad computer with no security.

The extra storage is the REAL thing you want for MacOS. 256GB is almost unworkable, IMO. It's what I have on this Mac Mini and I've had to fight pretty hard to keep my disk space free, even with a bunch of external drives hanging off of it.

For a laptop, the chip is fine. The A18Pro is faster than the M1 Mac Mini that I'm typing this on, and the M1s are all still getting along just fine--I'd like a newer machine because I compile code now and then and it's punishing on this thing, but for day-to-day use, it's still going strong. The REAL limiting factor on these machines is storage. 256GB is *barely* enough. macOS is bad about allowing you to offload certain things to external drives without jumping through some hoops, and once the space starts to run out, the OS flips out pretty hard. So storage management is kind of always an ongoing thing.

But if you're mostly using it for a bit of schoolwork, web browsing, some spreadsheets, and you rely on the cloud for all your photos and music, it's probably fine.

Seriously, this is a very good deal. I do agree that they should have physically marked the USB 2.0 port SOMEHOW, but other than that, this was a decent set of compromises to make to drop the price.

It's making a comeback. It's WAY easier than painting, and the glues are better so it's easier to get the paper off afterwards if you want to take it down.

There are now THREE core types:
Super (previously 'Performance')
Performance (new)
Efficiency (same)

The M5 Pro and up chips have a mix of 'Super' and 'Performance'.
The base M5 chip has a mix of 'Super' and 'Efficiency', but has no (new) 'Performance' cores.

It's not straightforward, but it's not the same as Apple making the chips worse and renaming the cores so you don't notice.

Hello,
Steve Jobs didn't invent the Smart Phone, I did in 2000, signed by Carnegie Mellon
If I wanted money, I would have sued em 20 years ago.
I'm already succeeding in what I wanted to achieve because revealing these designs to Warren Buffet's lawyers
resulted in Warren Buffet selling $133 billion in Apple stock.
I didn't want money. I designed this to fight surveillance state.
Yes, I chose to not take big money when I was young so I could help the world when I was older. Not many are like me.
I saw the phone would have GPS and everyone would use it (ubiquitousness).
As a punk, but not yet a Christian, I stood vs corporations and control at age 23. I saw it coming.
I had a choice: Don't invent the Smart Phone, or...
...invent it so well that I'd have a hand in the game down the road. So I chose to bridge over the River Kwaii it.
In addition to forcing Warren Buffet's hand to sell his stock:
I interfered with the Sam Altman openAI deal by explaining Apple has forward and back liability of 8% to me.
I contacted Europe to fine/regulate Apple/Google and two weeks later they did start regulating.
I likely induced the stock panic in March 5, 2025 (https://facebook.com/groups/visionprocommunity/posts/3959488814298117/).
That's a total of $640 billion Tim Crook already cost his company. Solid damage for just one man:
The fun part is, Apple and Google are playing the game wrong because they think, like yourself, that I want money.
Nope, I want to burn the surveillance state... Seeing as Tim Crook is such a bad CEO that he chose to push agendas,
he cost his company $640 billion instead of just paying me a small $5 million and allow me to help Apple to another
design revolution as happened in 2007 using my designs. I have screenless cell phone designs, house automation, etc...
Likely over 100,000 people know of me today as the Father of the Smart Phone
Many see me as a champion for freedom world wide who'd rather live in poverty willingly than give in to the surveillance state.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7adlsb-Y1M
Crimes of Apple that identified them as the very 1984 they said they'd fight vs in their 1984 commercial:
Apple turned people into the UK government for stuff they said near their phone.
Apple turned off Chinese Revolutionary air pods interfering with war.
Google censored the deadly vax. Murdering millions and disabling tens of millions.
Apple and Amazon censored Parler stating "Free speech is for na,.zis"
Know a lawyer?
Look what I invented:
#1 Virtual keyboard
#2 3 button nav
#3 App store
#4 Palm+Cellular
#5 Cloud Computing
#6 Contact list
#7 Advanced Scheduler
#8 The Smart Watch->Apple Watch
#9 APPLE VISION PRO IN GOGGLE DISPLAY!
#10 Global Positioning System
#11 QR business Cards
#12 Wireless communications in a handheld device
#13 Fuzzy search settings by typing
#14 Different Sounds for different alerts & Vibro/Visual/Sound Alert combo.
#15 Voice recorder
#16 Air tags
#17 Wire to computer to move files
#18 Undo/redo
#19 Contextual help system/Adaptive onboarding and custom icon set circle around ?
#20 Spell Check
#21 Copy/paste
#22 Customizable programmable calculators
#23 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Principles for Mobile for screen realestate-Hideable zones/Customizable Home screen
#24 Smart Phone Email
#25 Media Casting from Mobile to External Display
#26 Filesystem Navigation in PDA/Smartphone
#27 Foldable Screen Hardware Design
#28 Different Device size parameters to different users
#29 Ergonomics of Device Dimensions and UI Layout
#30 Pc data link cable:
#31 Ipod designs
Proof time Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozp8GB-i2Z4
Or: https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1842585361706353053
Set A: https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1846035703886434692
Set B: https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1824804099025432951
web: http://techaform.com
Dilbert Guy confused about it lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7adlsb-Y1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J2mUwh5XZE
Many of the design papers from 2000 that Tim Cook stole: https://techaform.com/bin/Smar...
Obviously I'm looking for legal representation on contingency.
Remember to me, this isn't about money, but the harder we hit Apple the more wind we cut out of global tyranny.
AI is stating the case is between $500 billion to $1 trillion
My estimates using the $1.05 billion won by Apple from Samsung from "rounded corners" is around $240 billion to $480 billion.
Google would be about 70% of Apple's take so $350 to 700 billion using AI models or $170 billion to $340 billion using my models.
So total case value: $850 billion to $1.7 trillion or $410 billion to $820 billion.
You know how evil Apple and Google have become. How about you give me a phone call and see that I'm legit and better for the world
than ol Tim Crook and Sundai Pinchar who know who I am and aren't bringing me on for more technological improvement I brought
into the world 2007-2015... Designs from 2000, take a gander at the above links.
Sincerely,
James Wilbur Sager III

I did a talk with the Dilbert (Scott Adams Crew)

I'm a respected intellectual and I make it easy to understand: I know stuff on Iran that not everyone does...