I have a theory that cpu performance in laptops plateauing is something we'll see more of in the future, as manufacturers further optimize for battery life and

I have a theory that cpu performance in laptops plateauing is something we'll see more of in the future, as manufacturers further optimize for battery life and being very thin. 15 years ago I wanted a very powerful MacBook pro. Now I'm fine with a MacBook air and if I need to do something that requires heavy lifting, I have remote access (ssh, vnc over ssh, etc) into a loud, beefy hypervisor located somewhere else with 512GB of RAM in it. On the consumer level and for non technical end users, as more functions are offloaded to "the cloud" with peoples' subscriptions to office365, Google workspace, iCloud, whatever, having a ton of cpu power in the laptop also isn't as necessary anymore. Along with things like h.265 and av1 video encode and decode being done with GPU assist rather than purely in software.