People can get pretty much what they want on the PC side and they will live their lives not knowing any different. I always find it mildly humorous that PC people continuously keep engaging the Mac community and brigading why their PC is better suited for their task of choice, be it gaming or something else.
To clarify some things, these new apple machines are as much 'pc' to me personally as any windows laptop/machine is. The differentiator for me is the OS/software the hardwares running, i dont care what architecture powers my boxes, the same for it being Ampere, RDNA etc. Im going for what offers me the best performance, and for me that is Windows and the hardware its usually running on (primary gaming, hence why im on these forums).
For a content creator obviously the mac is going to offer better value.
As I've said before the potential is certainly there and the M1 Pro / Max can battle it out with the best from AMD and Intel as well as graphic cards like the AMD Radeon 6800M or nVDIA 3060 / 3080 mobile.
That potentional is there at a much, much higher price-tag, its just not there atm and usually you shouldnt buy a product based on whats 'potentionally there' but what you are getting right now.
It's a great SoC that delivers amazing performance per watt.
Absolutely.
Benchmarks that started out as smartphone software on iOS is very well optimised for Apple Silicon thanks to iPhone and iPad. I feel like GFXBench 5 proves that much.
And that reflects on the benchmarks indeed. Other benchmarks that are better optimized for x86 would favor that architecture.
You look at the screen every time you turn the device on, so it should get a bit more credit than saying you can get screen with bad colour science that outputs 24Hz more.
Gamers usually care more for higher refresh rates than colour accuracy (i think), i do atleast.
Just because the M1 does well on Geekbench, doesn't mean it only does well on Geekbench.
True, what i ment is that like the HUB analysis/comparison one should look at real world performance and gauge from there what fits their needs.
And again, im all for it to Apple powering my next personal computer, and im sure they will take over the entire MS/windows industry and then games will automatically be optimized for that architecture.