That machine is barely cheaper, has a much worse display, gets half the battery life, comes pre-loaded with bloatware, and you have to contend with HP's legenda

That machine is barely cheaper, has a much worse display, gets half the battery life, comes pre-loaded with bloatware, and you have to contend with HP's legendarily poor build quality. This is not a comparable machine. It may win in a drag race, but there is way more to a laptop than FLOPS. And I don't even use a Mac. I primarily run Windows and Linux. I'm not some brainwashed cultist like you think. EDIT: And the CPU is still considerably slower than the M1[1], so it doesn't even win the hypothetical drag race. 1: https://www.notebookcheck.net/i7-1195G7-vs-M1-vs-M1-Max_13181_12937_13843.247596.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/i7-1195G7-vs-M1-vs-M1-Max_1318...