Comment by kjkjadksj

They still talk efficiency on one end of the mouth. Now people are buying macbooks with what 24 cores to check email on a website for work. All because that macbook now trains models in the background for reasons that clearly help this average user and their average use case. I will say as an owner of one of these macbooks that I appreciate finally having a computer with a full workday of battery life. But still. 24 cores to run the same sort of workflow that was established 25 years ago. 2025 word still does exactly what word 98 did. Same email. Same excel. Same editors and IDEs. But of course an order of magnitude more resources squandered to do so. And we tell ourselves that we need such powerful laptops because probably 1% of users actually insist on pushing this laptop to its limits instead of just buying an unsexy desktop or renting server. When really we could have all gotten by still with the dual core macbooks I expect for most peoples use cases. I had one of those last 12 years myself before an unfortunate water spill.