> Most people? Absolutely not. Take a look at your CPU usage right now. Pretty much all background tasks can be done on a core or two. I only have 8 cores, and

> Most people? Absolutely not. Take a look at your CPU usage right now. Pretty much all background tasks can be done on a core or two. I only have 8 cores, and the only time they're all facing high load is when I'm compiling code. Basically the M1 ultra is only useful for professional graphics/video editors, and developers compiling large codebases or training ml models.