> actually made me assume the M1 was going to be a flop, and in practice worse than a current high-end Dell laptop Precisely my thinking. However, I don't thin

> actually made me assume the M1 was going to be a flop, and in practice worse than a current high-end Dell laptop Precisely my thinking. However, I don't think we're the target audience for this Apple generation. If my mother saw it, she'd probably think "great, finally something faster than my computer." Despite the article's praise of the graphs, I think it's a highly risky move that looks highly suspicious, and can pay off only when you know your target audience, and you know you're 100% right. If I saw a cloud provider, let's say Oracle Cloud, having a similar graph against the leader, like AWS, they'd lose credibility in my mind. Unless I'd read later they were right, in which case I'd think someone in their marketing just brain farted when making the graphs.