And in some cases, multi-threading would be the only way to do things. Where right now, single-threaded file copy, decompression or draw-calls are largely a thing because it's way easier to do and there is no need to change it outside professional applications.

Also, some things might actually be better than they are right now. Having to wait for pointless animations to finish before a UI element becomes usable should not be a thing. If there was no CPU performance for this kind of nonsense, they wouldn't be there.

Please don't mix clockspeeds with performance. A Athlon™ 5350 from 2014 is >20x slower single threaded than a Core i9-14900K. Yet it's 2 GHz vs. 5.8 GHz. Architecture, Cache and Memory Speed matter A LOT.

It's small, cheap and replaced in seconds.

Also the output it filtered so there are no rocks or other debris thrown into the car behind. That was already the case on the prototype raced at Goodwood.

Or to satisfy the needs of the few who actually do use the touchbar and don't want it to be abandonware after just two generations.

That being said, the lowest config is often something that is just there to meet a price point for advertising purposes, not what Apple actually expects people to buy. They've been doing this for decades. 16gb was the "standard" in 2015 already for most machines.

And partially, you just don't. It'll freeze over and since this is for competition and not daily use, that is okay. Usually nothing gets damaged, sometimes it does. Extreme OC is expensive.

Liquid Helium is too expensive and difficult to handle otherwise. Even for extreme overclocking.

But when I see "comparable to a nuke" at least I know immediately that this is a major event. A hurricane, powerful as it may be, is harder to grasp for a comparison.