I am also in the "it may as well be a desktop" camp, though I am willing to accept that there may be people out there for whom this product makes sense. They ma

I am also in the "it may as well be a desktop" camp, though I am willing to accept that there may be people out there for whom this product makes sense. They may number in the low dozens, but surely they do exist. This is really Apple's own fault for talking up the performance of the M1 Pro/Max so much, but ultimately I don't think it will matter as long as they can keep pace with Intel and AMD. I expect I could count on one hand the number of people who were going to buy an M1 MBP but pivoted to one of these beasts after the 12-series benchmarks dropped. From my perspective, I could not be more pleased that my (relatively) light and svelte 14" M1 Max, which can go all day and more on a single charge, is even in the same league performance-wise as creaking behemoths like this.