[bluescrn]

'Gaming laptops' with more powerful GPUs are generally awful, though. Even ignoring the state of Win11.

Yes, they can theoretically perform better, but only when plugged into mains power, and creating so much heat and fan noise that the experience really isn't good.

Don't think there's anything out there that will outperform the GPU of an M-series Mac without consuming way more power and producing problematic levels of heat+noise.

[yakz]

Sure, but this is another avenue to onboard people to the upgrade train. Sure your display is great, your CPU is great, the speakers are great. But the AAA graphics scale up every year and there are often big performance cliffs for new features on old hardware.