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> with 16GB of RAM

Which is not a lot.

> superior build quality

Is that really true? There are PC laptops with comparable or only slightly inferior build quality.

> And on top of that it runs completely silently.

That great. But it depends on your use case, thermal throttling can certainly be an issue. Also Intel/AMD have mostly caught up performance wise.

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PC laptops with similar build quality cost the same or more.

x86 machines only compete when you don’t consider power consumption (which really matters for laptops). It’s so bad that most top end x86 machines won’t even try to hit those peak numbers unless the machine is plugged in and then only for short periods of time.

My M1 beats most x86 machines even after it throttles and it’s over three years old now. My M3 Max machine blows away the x86 machines I run into and it does it while still having good battery life.

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> My M1 beats most x86 machines even after it throttles and it’s over three years old now

I doubt that. Last gen Intel/AMD cpus are pretty fast these days.