Most of academics write papers, they care about none of those things. Unless you work on AI, which most don't, then you don't care that the M4 is a little slow

Most of academics write papers, they care about none of those things. Unless you work on AI, which most don't, then you don't care that the M4 is a little slow for that purpose. The academics who are working on large dataset frequently have access to cluster computers or large servers running in the university datacenter... or frequently sits under their desk, because they have trust issues.