[timschmidt]

I used my M1 Mac Mini (16gb / 512gb) for a month, then switched back to my 5800X3D / 3090Ti system and even the desktop seemed to be twice as fast. Applications screamed. Code compiled 5x faster. Probably an unfair comparison. Not much difference in what I paid though.

My most recent laptop purchase was a $300 AMD Ryzen 3 to which I added 64gb of ECC DRAM for another $300ish. Zero complaints. It's faster than the M1 at every game the two can both play.

I run Linux on both. I'm not really tied to platform - if I can run Linux on it and it performs better, I'm game.

[solardev]

Sure, but performance isn't the primary (or at least only) consideration for many users. M1/M2 was never top at performance, just balancing it for perf/watt.