With the right attitude, any robot’s a sexbot.

…and my robot vacuum’s looking mighty fine right now.

Vasquez is always the best

That’s absolutely not true. The M3 Max just about brings Apple performance up to similar levels as Intel and AMD. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D for example is a laptop processor which trades blows with the M3 on benchmarks - single core the M3’s slightly faster and multi core the Ryzen’s slightly faster - and in performance per watt the Ryzen’s marginally better. So really it’s just catching up with older laptop processors from other manufacturers.

And if you venure outside the laptop space to compare ultimate speed it’s nowhere near the fastest, particularly in multi-threaded. Its multi-threaded performance is around 13% of the AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo for example.

It’s from a famous paper. Linked by gnutrinto elsewhere in this thread,

Is this a thing that actually happens?

The worst thing about this is that the English teacher is wrong too - common usage dictates that this is a perfectly acceptable form of request.

Because they often don’t get updated when security updates become available