Max Weinbach
@mweinbach
Analyst @creativestrat | Analyst and Market Research Firm | Typo ignorer
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By the way, the surface laptop ultra is pretty great
More coming soon, it’s been a really busy week
My favorite RTX Spark machines being shown off in no particular order:
Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition
Asus ProArt P14
Surface Laptop Ultra
RTX Spark dev box and surface laptop pricing!
$2599 for surface laptop ultra, Spark dev box $5999
It’ll be super easy to setup openclaw on windows now
Caught this ad for Grok Bot in JFK
New Codex cloud environments are fantastic holy crap these are so good, especially with dots
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next updated numbers for M5 Ultra
We are now at 3740 tok/s prefill, 149 tok/s decode batched on M5 Ultra for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next
This is nearly double what it was yesterday
I have been using the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra for the past week, and it's the most powerful computer I've used.
Been a bit busy over the past week so my report will be slightly delayed, but just know... Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is the best model for the 256GB version, it rips
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Oh yea so I have to say after a year of Ceramic Shield 2 on the 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air
This glass is magic it has 0 scratches and idk how that's even possible, it's just insanely good and I no longer worry about screen protectors or scratches at all
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Mac Studio M5 Ultra
Backordered to... end of January
Apple’s C2 modem has support for mmWave and is in iPhone Duo
Price increase on the iPhone 18 Pro is… $100
Much lower than anyone was expecting
Let me give an example
It took a model compiled for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 NPU, looked at the NPU drivers, traced the complication process to the hardware bindings for the end model, and got it back into essentially it's original weights with a 99.9% match on everything
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While I'm not going to give any specific demos, part of the press release of GPT-6 Astra is that it can reverse engineer software binaries to understand logic without source code with high success rate
I can confirm and noticed it doing this to optimize/fix apps
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Actually the craziest part of Astra is it will continue to work for days or weeks until something is done
I have it building a custom ROM for my Xiaomi 17 Ultra (the goal is to embed codex app-server) and it's been running for ~8 days straight and used over 1600 subagents
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Another fun demo of Astra, I realized like 3.5 hours ago I didn't have a cool enough demo
In 75 minutes, I gave it the same simulate macOS 27 prompt. It's BY FAR the best output I've seen. If you log in, it also has cloud sync and working apps
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I had early access to GPT-6 Astra and it's maybe the most insane model I've experienced
In Blender, I had it recreate Apple Park from just images. It did an absurd job.
ChatGPT Work did, in fact, book me a haircut for 90 minutes ago and it did work
I did get a haircut
