i think people are really underselling how fast the a18 pro actually is too
its on par with the m1 for multicore and mops the floor with it for single core
my entire opinion of this machine has gone from "what is apple even thinking" to "oh they're onto something here" as i found out more about it
if you give this machine to the kid you described in that blog post, it is going to last them for *years* and potentially get them into a field they would have never considered otherwise