But if you're talking about desktop vs laptop performance, single thread performance is very similar and the only large difference is multithreading where deskt

But if you're talking about desktop vs laptop performance, single thread performance is very similar and the only large difference is multithreading where desktop chips are something like 2-4x faster. If somebody is saying that it's more similar to laptop chips than desktop chips, the only reasonable interpretation of that is talking about multithreading performance. Sure it's 'comparable' to the iMac Pro if the comparison you want to make is that it is 1/4 as fast.