A senior Apple systems engineer who's configured over 500 Macs in the last 6 years told me the average MacBook Pro owner wastes two hours a week doing things the laptop already does automatically.
They drag files by holding down the trackpad when a hidden setting lets them drag with three fingers and zero pressure. They screenshot and open Preview to crop when the screenshot tool has a built-in editor. They switch between 12 open windows by clicking when four corners of the screen can sort them instantly. They pick up their phone to copy a link when the MacBook already shares a clipboard with their iPhone.
"People buy a $1,599 laptop and use it like a $300 Chromebook. The features are all there. They just never opened System Settings."
11 features. Every one is free. Most owners have never configured a single one.🧵👇
I rank 23 AI tools from S to F.
This will make some of you (very) angry:
✦ 𝗦 𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 ✦
Claude Fable-5 - https://t.co/d4f30RVWMI
☑ The smartest AI model.
☑ Included in Max subscription.
☑ It solves what every other model gives up on.
✦ 𝗔 𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 ✦
Grok Bot - https://t.co/k5q7JOQFQw
☑ The only AI agent I use.
☑ Super simple to use & set up.
☑ For people who are not technical.
Wispr Flow - https://t.co/G7mUFJy6Ee
☑ Write text with your voice.
☑ Insanely fast & accurate.
☑ Keeps on training on your edits.
Gamma - https://t.co/ulDvCaLOmm
☑ Make slides, with AI.
☑ The best PowerPoint killer.
☑ Unmatched taste in their designs.
Granola - https://t.co/c6BbQdt56Z
☑ The best AI meeting notetaker.
☑ Made for simplicity & efficiency.
☑ It does NOT connect to the call.
Seedance - https://t.co/ZiG3bwgBYE
☑ The best AI model for videos.
☑ 30 secs in one shot (Veo gives you 8).
☑ Free credits every day.
✦ 𝗕 𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 ✦
ChatGPT 5.6 Sol/Luna - https://t.co/7o1Ws5c18M
☑ Sol for the hard stuff, Luna for the rest.
☑ The best free chatbot, & it's not close.
☑ Connected to more apps.
Kimi – https://t.co/oRuGSRvrjh
☑ 2.8 trillion parameters, & open-source.
☑ The best AI for long, autonomous tasks.
☑ Free on the app, cheap on the API.
DeepSeek – https://t.co/nAKwoK9O9E
☑ The Chinese ChatGPT, for free.
☑ And they just made the API 4x pricier.
Cursor – https://t.co/M58iCDuJco
☑ The AI code editor everyone copied.
☑ SpaceX bought it for $60B.
☑ Free hobby plan, no card needed.
✦ 𝗖 𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 ✦
NotebookLM - https://t.co/IhSLUIvUAs
☑ A great AI to upload courses and learn.
☑ Create a podcast, quizzes, or mindmaps.
☑ Can take up to 50 sources, even from YouTube.
Resend - https://t.co/5XGFyw4w5s
☑ Send emails from your app in 5 minutes.
☑ 3,000 emails per month, for free.
☑ You write the emails in code, not HTML.
Supabase - https://t.co/D6hOdymaeM
☑ The database behind most vibecoded apps.
☑ Logins, storage, and it's real Postgres.
☑ Free up to 50,000 users.
✦ 𝗗 𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 ✦
Claude Opus-5
☑ Almost Fable-5, at half the price.
☑ You choose the effort level. I keep it on High.
☑ Great at executing tasks, after brainstorming with Fable
Gemini veo - https://t.co/bHe5m1ZiaI
☑ Google's video AI, now called Gemini Omni.
☑ 50 free credits per day inside Flow.
☑ Which is not even one good video.
Notion - https://t.co/6PQbBdoyoQ
☑ Where a lot of people keep everything.
☑ Claude and Cursor now work inside it.
☑ But the AI features are locked in the paid plan.
Canva – https://t.co/DSXNRAHGlM
☑ Underwhelming AI features.
☑ Well-known non-designer design tool.
✦ 𝗘 𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 ✦
GitHub – https://t.co/isojXZ42SX
☑ Where the code of the world lives.
☑ Free forever BUT extremely buggy.
Gemini (app) – https://t.co/bHe5m1ZiaI
☑ The free model is 3.6-Flash.
☑ Far from the top 20 models.
Grammarly – https://t.co/3vs548BBeC
☑ Grammar fixes, for free.
☑ Very annoying pop-ups to make you pay.
✦ 𝗙 𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥 ✦
Copilot – the worst LLM at everything.
Claude Sonnet 5 – Use ChatGPT for free instead.
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