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On: Meta acquires Moltbook

[tedmiston]

    Moltbook Valuation & Funding
    Deal Type              Date         Amount Raised to Date Post-Val  Status     Stage
    2. Merger/Acquisition  10-Mar-2026  -       -               -         Announced  Startup
    1. Early Stage VC      01-Mar-2026  -       -               -         Completed  Startup

On: Meta acquires Moltbook

[tedmiston]

comparing an acquihire of two people by analogy to a $70B investment is a bit egregrious... this event is pocket change to big tech.

On: Meta acquires Moltbook

[tedmiston]

it's high talent acquisition, the service is just a byproduct. this reads like an acquihire.

On: Meta acquires Moltbook

[tedmiston]

it's just a fancified key talent acquihire of people on the edge. with the amount of cash in LLMs, i expect to see more of this given the pace of innovation in that field.

the story does sound ridiculous ostensibly, but that's the press spin.

On: To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps

[tedmiston]

now give them The Orb

On: MacBook Neo

[tedmiston]

anybody else thinking of getting one just to have a mac in a fun color?

as someone who likes bold colors, the citrus is nice.

On: MacBook Neo

[tedmiston]

"Apple Pi"

[davnicwil → tedmiston]

very nice

On: MacBook Neo

[tedmiston]

- 2.03 lb on the old 12" books

- 2.7 lb on the 13" neo and 13.6" air

does that 2/3 lb difference really matter in a ~10–15 lb backpack?

On: MacBook Neo

[tedmiston]

no commission

[newsclues → tedmiston]

Does not mean no incentives.

On: MacBook Neo

[tedmiston]

> A18 Pro chip (2 performance cores + 4 efficiency cores) whereas the macbook air has the M5 chip

i don't see the m5 air on geekbench yet, but here are some related numbers for context (sorted by multi ascending):

    | device                      | cpu                                             | single core score | multi core score |
    |:----------------------------|:------------------------------------------------|------------------:|-----------------:|
    | iPhone 16 Pro Max           | Apple A18 Pro                                   |              3428 |             8531 |
    | iPhone 16 Pro               | Apple A18 Pro                                   |              3445 |             8624 |
    | MacBook Air (15-inch, 2025) | Apple M4 @ 4.4 GHz (10 CPU cores, 10 GPU cores) |              3708 |            14698 |
    | MacBook Air (13-inch, 2025) | Apple M4 @ 4.4 GHz (10 CPU cores, 8 GPU cores)  |              3696 |            14729 |
    | MacBook Air (13-inch, 2025) | Apple M4 @ 4.4 GHz (10 CPU cores, 10 GPU cores) |              3696 |            14729 |
    | MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2025) | Apple M5 @ 4.6 GHz (10 CPU cores, 10 GPU cores) |              4228 |            17464 |

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks

https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks

[wffurr → tedmiston]

Put the M1 in your comparison - I think the A18 Pro compares favorably to it and it's a good baseline for people who bought in on Apple Silicon early and are still using it.

[josephg → wffurr]

    | device                      | cpu                               | single core | multi core |
    |:----------------------------|:----------------------------------|------------:|-----------:|
    | iPhone 16 Pro Max           | Apple A18 Pro                     |        3428 |       8531 |
    | iPhone 16 Pro               | Apple A18 Pro                     |        3445 |       8624 |
    | MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) | Apple M1 Pro @ 3.2 GHz (10 cores) |        2385 |      12345 |
    | MacBook Air (13-inch, 2025) | Apple M4 @ 4.4 GHz (10 CPU cores) |        3696 |      14729 |
    | MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2025) | Apple M5 @ 4.6 GHz (10 CPU cores) |        4228 |      17464 |

The single core performance difference is wild. Far more than I expected.

My ageing M1 Pro still has better multicore performance than these new laptops. But far worse single core performance. For most users this would be a large upgrade. Well, if you can get by with 8gb of RAM.

[jamiek88 → josephg]

My M1 Pro MacBook Pro is only just now occasionally feeling a little slow and showing me a beach ball occasionally but I’m being super picky due to new machine FOMO and it is the best laptop I’ve had by a country mile.

Still, I can’t justify an upgrade to myself!!

Surprising single core numbers notwithstanding !

[josephg → jamiek88]

My M1 macbook pro still handles everything I throw at it beautifully. I'd love an excuse to upgrade, but there's no reason to do yet. At least not for me.

I'm going to wait a few more years. The M1 is too good. So is my iphone 12. There's just nothing wrong with my phone other than the lightning port.

[wffurr → josephg]

I have some clip-on USB-C to Lightning adapters that work really well for charging and Carplay. The connection got flaky at one point, but cleaning the port with some iFixit tools fixed that right up.

Clinging to my iPhone 13 Mini until it's natural death.

[wffurr → josephg]

That's an M1 Pro chip. Looking at the base MacBook Pro / Air models with the base M1 chip, the multi-core score is about the same, and those laptops are also still going strong:

    device                          | cpu                               | single core | multi core |
    |:------------------------------|:----------------------------------|------------:|-----------:|
     MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2020)| Apple M1 @ 3.2 GHz (8 cores)      |        2323 |       8186

[iso-logi → tedmiston]

Do we think the iPhone 16 with A18 Pro chips are going to be the same as the A18 in the laptop though?

When you are not confined to a iPhone body, you have a bit more flexibility in thermals, heat and power consumption.

Would there be any chance the A18 Pro in a Macbook clocks higher? or maybe clocks higher for longer?