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> It's not worlds better than a Ryzen 5 5600X or its mobile variant

Maybe if you're solely focused on performance.

But the other reason why M1 is so ground breaking is because it offers this performance with ~2x the battery life and minimal cooling compared to its competitors.

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I think everyone is aware of the battery life / minimal heat dissipation of the Apple Silicon processor. The grandparent comment was specifically quoting and refuting this line:

> Given the little chance Intel or anyone else is going to keep up with this new level of performance

That line is strictly true in a thermally constrained machine such as a laptop.

Hi, I'm the author. English is my second language and by performance I assumed the overall performance within all the constraints, that is, temperature, noise, and battery included. If I was to type everything explicitly, the article would be very exact, but very long and hard to read. The exactness wasn't so important in this sentence, as I think it's clear I'm aware of how it is given I earlier mentioned I enjoyed articles where this is considered and explained.

I think I was agreeing with you.

The M1 is on a 5nm process from TSMC. I'm sure if AMDs Zen 3 (eg Ryzen 5600x) was also on that process instead of 7nm the perf/power ratio would be similar

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