The Mac Pro, Mac Studio, Mac Mini, and iMac are basically how Apple covers that market. The Mac Pro is pretty much unobtainable on a budget and definitely aimed

The Mac Pro, Mac Studio, Mac Mini, and iMac are basically how Apple covers that market. The Mac Pro is pretty much unobtainable on a budget and definitely aimed at a niche market (high end video/3D graphics production). The Mac Studio is actually pretty nice as a high end work station. The mac mini kind of stops where the Mac Studio begins in terms of performance. If you are maxing out the specs on that, you might be better off getting the entry model Mac Studio. And an imac is what you use if you don't care about performance that much. But the point is that all of these have a market and some people are spending big on this. I talked to one of my friends recently who runs a high tech printing company and they spent some money on a mac studio recently for doing graphics work. Worth the money according to him. I have a 14" macbook pro (M1). It's great. I do some flight simuluation on it occasionally with X-plane 12. That runs pretty smooth on this thing and it's one of the few things I have that actually gets this laptop warm. Apple did a great job of getting great performance with modest power budgets. Comparing their products to water cooled monstrosities is not really that interesting.