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The reason he compares it to desktops, is because the only thing in the performance test that's comparable, is the desktops. The M1 system tested had double the RAM of the Intel systems. For processing video, RAM makes a huge difference. If your editor can store all the decompressed clips and cache in RAM, your performance increases exponentially. In addition, the "live playback" score is weighed heavily for some reason, when that's an easy test all systems can perform fine, and is not timed.

It's not clickbait, because the article literally tells you both the positives and negatives, as well as titling it "mixed bag" instead of "apple loses." We call this a balanced review.

But I get it. Anything that's not "m1 is revolutionary" is clickbait to the apple crowd.