In other words, if you are willing to compromise, Apple isn't so bad of a deal. Well if I willing to compromise I'll do down to dirt cheap and then Apple doesn'

In other words, if you are willing to compromise, Apple isn't so bad of a deal. Well if I willing to compromise I'll do down to dirt cheap and then Apple doesn't even compete there. M2 have nothing special against similarly priced competition unless for some reason you ABSOLUTELY need to run your powerful hardware in the desert with zero power available. But I am told most people runs their workload at home with plenty of cheap power available. I must be wrong.