> Even M1 macs (I have one and love it), while powerful, just can’t hold a candle to a workstation class machine. My M1 Pro is faster in some workloads than a

> Even M1 macs (I have one and love it), while powerful, just can’t hold a candle to a workstation class machine. My M1 Pro is faster in some workloads than a small Dell tower sold as a "workstation". Of course I could buy a huge workstation with a 250W CPU or some kind of insanity like that, but then I suspect its power efficiency will be 4 times worse than the M1 Pro. The Dell tower already makes quite a good amount of noise under load while being beaten by a mostly silent M1 Pro.