Hi! Author here. I don't call the E5-2680s "somewhat old", I call them ancient, because they are... well.. ancient. I included them in the comparison because up

Hi! Author here. I don't call the E5-2680s "somewhat old", I call them ancient, because they are... well.. ancient. I included them in the comparison because up until recently, I was still using an E5-2680 workstation. So really the point was that for ME personally, the M1 Max is a huge improvement over what I had previously. I don't really keep piles of the latest Xeons sitting around my house, so I had to make do with what I had. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For what it's worth, I also threw in comparisons with the 2019 Mac Pro's Xeon W-3245 and the Threadripper 3990X, both of which might be described as "somewhat new".