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It does seem quite nice. Is the pen input decent? If the build quality is OK the pricing is quite good, in France with 32Go/1To is 650€ cheaper than an equivalent MacBook Air. I have not looked for a proper CPU comparison but I don't that it matters that much for a device of this type, and as you said, with Apple Silicon you lose a lot of the performance once you venture away from optimized software (which is still quite restrictive).

Considering the (relative) failure of the ARM push for Windows PCs I doubt ARM is going anywhere in the consumer market (that probably means it will stay niche in the server market as well but we'll see).