Yes,the article's own headline itself claims 'M1 is not faster than 98% of PC laptops', then goes out to 'prove' this by comparing it to 'high-end gaming laptops and desktop PCs'.

I mean it's a pretty stupid, broad and useless claim a CPU is 'faster than 98% of PC laptops' considering this can be interpreted in so many ways at least one of them could make sense. But the article is even worse because of it, failing to even find a single sensible interpretation of Apple's claim that disproves it (which isn't hard at all, if you interpret '98% of PC laptops' as '98% of PC laptop models')

Indeed. It also confuses "98% of laptops" and "98% of laptops sold". The highest end laptops sell a lot fewer units.