Don't know first-hand about Alder Lake, but I have an Asus laptop running an AMD 5900HS CPU (with a 3070 GPU), and an M1 Max for work. I can buy 3 Asus laptops

Don't know first-hand about Alder Lake, but I have an Asus laptop running an AMD 5900HS CPU (with a 3070 GPU), and an M1 Max for work. I can buy 3 Asus laptops for the price of the Macbook, and despite that I still prefer working with it. Full disclosure, we're mostly a Windows shop so I'm very rarely using the Macbook for actual development (mostly just doing builds and running tests on it, otherwise just use it on a second monitor for browsing and Spotify :)). Yes, it's subjective; I'm sure in some purely synthetic benchmark the Macbook wins, but in real life they're pretty close. And if I were actually lugging it around, I may prefer the lighter / quieter Macbook (but likely remote-ing into some Windows box or running Parallels would hurt perf enough to hate it). I can also game on the Asus too :)