A year ago yes, but today Intel's Alder Lake CPU's are excellent, trading blow for blow against AMD's and Apple's latest and in many benchmarks outright beating

A year ago yes, but today Intel's Alder Lake CPU's are excellent, trading blow for blow against AMD's and Apple's latest and in many benchmarks outright beating its competition. The only serious draw back is the power consumption - but considering that they are on a worse node process that's not too surprising. Give Patrick Gelsinger a few years at the helm and we'll see if their plan to recapture fab leadership succeeds or not.