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Just to be clear, I've never taken a dime from Qualcomm, Apple, Raspberry Pi, etc—when I do take a sponsorship from any company I'm clear about it. I always mark videos as sponsored if anything was provided (eg review samples) and not purchased. That never includes payments or editorial oversight, and equipment is either returned or shelved afterwards for future comparisons. The only thing I accept money for is clearly demarcated ad integrations, like for Micro Center or Surfshark. See https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships for details. If I wanted to hype views I would not be sinking a few thousand hours into planning an event ;)

No, this laptop was loaned to me for a couple weeks (it's boxed up and ready to ship back now), and I fully disclose any and all sponsorship (this was not sponsored in any way); see my policies here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships Further, I'm basing my opinion on a number of benchmarks and power measurements besides just HPL. I just favor that because it's one of the few that push a CPU hard, fills system memory, and can't easily be gamed/made irrelevant with new architecture. The main point of my blog post is to say this is the first Intel chip that's even punched in the same weight class as any Apple Silicon, wrt efficiency. It quite surprised me.

The Mac Studio in most of my videos is my own workstation, purchased a while back. The 4 Mac Studio cluster I tested with Exo and Thunderbolt RDMA was a loaner cluster from Apple. There's no universe in which I could justify buying that. I always mention any equipment that's provided / loaned / etc. and the nature of my relationships with vendors—I try to also keep this document updated for transparency's sake: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube/blob/master/Sponsors....

The photos on that page look good, with detectable in focus and out of focus areas. Looking at this equipment page, https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#equipment he's using full frame or aps-c cameras. The exif reported resolution on one of the images suggests they might be frames from the 4k video.

I could easily sell out and make a buck, but I assure you, I did not get a penny from Timebeat for this video or blog post. I asked them if they'd send a unit for review, and they did. I will never do any kind of informercial style content; see my sponsorship policies here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships

I've never seen a dime from TrueNAS, but I can't speak for other content creators. I am explicit about my sponsorship, and will always mark a video and add information in both the video itself and the description disclosing exactly the relationship I have with any sponsoring vendor. See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships

Technically, they didn't pay... but they did send the display, speakers, stand, and Pi kit for review (I'm going to be integrating it into a new studio build—if I can get that to happen!). A silly distinction in some ways, but a distinction nonetheless. I explain how I accept different types of sponsorship / review samples in my youtube repo: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#paid-videos--product-...