You literally cut off the quote before the actual point is explained and got hung on your imagined issue, of course it's Apple silicon systems.
If you want to progress you might want follow the HN discussion guidelines and just explain your actual argument so that your mistake can be addressed.
> there is no way to design a real computer where doing some useless work is better than doing no work, just think about energy consumption and battery life since this is laptops.
you are saying either
1. these laptops are impossible
2. these laptops exhaust battery life
both of these things are manifestly false. so what exactly are you trying to say?
If you want to progress you might want follow the HN discussion guidelines and just explain your actual argument so that your mistake can be addressed.