[whywhywhywhy]

> MacBook Pro, i5 - 2017

Sorry but this is the worst machine Apple has made in possibly around 20 years. Feels heat constrained in it's own chassis, fan turns on at the drop of a hat, battery not big enough for sustained work and started durning off at 20% on older units when you open a video call, charger it ships with not powerful enough to jump start from empty without a 5 minute wait, keyboard feels gross makes too much (ugly crunchy sounding) noise and keys jam from everyday dust.

M1 was heaven after that shambles and I can never go back to hot, noisy and low battery laptops after this.

[bearjaws]

Is there a name for this type of person? Who will just waste any amount of time possible to get a 1% performance improvement.

I see it all the time in the overclocking community, and more seldomly in the portable space.

[twh270]

In my young years I had little understanding of the value of time, and would spend an inordinate amount of time on eking out that last little bit of perfection (whatever "perfect" looked like to me, anyway).

Bragging rights fits in here as well for a certain cohort. "Oh, you got 5.551Ghz, not bad but I'm at 5.5511Ghz".

Another classic example of this is uptime bragging for some linux fans, as a way to both one-up each other and to one-up the Windows community, which (more so in the past) had pretty awful uptimes due to various bugs and the need to reboot after making config changes. (We used to joke: "You have moved your mouse, please reboot Windows for this change to take effect.")

I think most people in this kind of community though just enjoy tinkering and maximizing performance/whatever.