What hardware? Up until a recent BIOS update my X870 board 9950X3D spent 3 minutes of a cold boot training the RAM… then booting up the OS in 4-8 seconds, so my Mac would always win these comparisons. Now it still takes a while at first boot, but subsequent reboots are snappy.

You’re still looking at the multi core score, you want this one:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

Where the M5 (non-pro, the one that will be in the next MacBook Air) is on top.

When the M5 multicore scores arrive, the multi-core charts will be interesting.

Thank You. I sometimes felt discussing anything Hardware on HN is hopeless.

Don’t worry, my new M4 doesn’t feel much faster either due to all the corporate crapware. Since Windows Defender got ported to Mac it’s become terrible in I/O and overall responsiveness. Any file operations will consume an entire core or two on Defender processes.

My personal M1 feels just as fast as the work M4 due to this.

We’re thinking of sending our son to a highly ranked local private school who has a policy of not doing anything like this with tech.

Students are also not allowed personal devices while school is in session, and social media ban for under 16s is hopefully coming here too (New Zealand).

AI music or AI-produced music sounds a bit boring and too-perfect, like auto-tune on steroids.

Needs significant human involvement to make it interesting.

How long that remains true is another question…

I had to go to Max, Pro is more like a taster.

At work tho we use Claude Code thru a proxy that uses the model hosted on AWS bedrock. It’s slower than consumer direct-to-Anthropic and you have to wait a bit for the latest models (Opus 4.5 took a while to get), but if our stats are to be believed it’s much much cheaper.

When really solid programmers who started skeptical (and even have a ban policy if PR submitters don’t disclose they used AI) now show how their workflows have been improved by AI agents, it may be worth trying to understand what they are doing and you are not.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey

My experience mirrors that of Mitchell. It absolutely is at the level now where AI can free up time to do the really interesting stuff.

Is there a plan like the $100 Claude Max? $200 for ChatGPT Pro is a little bit too much for me.

Whereas Claude Max 5x is enough that I don’t really run out with my usage patterns.

If $20/mo Claude is not enough for you but 5x Claude at $100/mo is, the $20 chatgpt plus subscription might give you enough codex for your usage

Enabling ADP breaks all kinds of things in Apple’s ecosystem subtly with incredibly arcane errors.

I was unable to use Apple Fitness+ on my TV due to it telling me my Watch couldn’t pair with the TV.

The problem went away when turning off ADP.

To turn off ADP required opening a support case with Apple which took three weeks to resolve, before this an attempt to turn off would just fail with no detailed error.

Other things like iCloud on the web were disabled with ADP on.

I just wanted encrypted backups, that was it.

That chimes roughly with my experience, but to be fair ADP is designed not just for encrypted backups, but to harden the ecosystem for people who may be under the greatest threat. Worth noting that it has been outlawed in the UK and cannot be enabled, which makes me think it's pretty decent

> Worth noting that it has been outlawed in the UK and cannot be enabled

For the record, there is an ongoing court battle between Apple and UK government about getting it overturned.

Which also says many positive things for Apple that they are willing to put their money where their mouth is and put up a fight.

And that’s a significant PR and marketing posture for Apple.

You wouldn’t happen to work in North Norfolk would you?

FWIW I've been running ADP for over a year now, and so far I haven't noticed any problems.

iCloud on the web not being available is kind of expected; how would it work with E2EE?

Huh, that’s crazy because ADP doesn’t break anything for me. Then again, I’m not trying to connect an Apple Watch to a tv. What a simple life I live.

Instead of speculating you could download and see for yourself that it’s not. It’s by Marcin Krzyzanowski who is all about native iOS and macOS apps.