The M1 and 5850U are in the same laptop price range. But I agree on the single-thread, it's indeed 12% faster.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Apple-M1-8-Core-3200-MH...
I'd say AMD is really blowing the M1 laptops out of the water at half the price and more performance.
edit: wow price went way up actually - I paid $790 https://i.imgur.com/aBamY5l.png
Many OEMs don't really give a good thermal headroom for the AMD processors, and only Lenovo seems to have done it right.
Lenovo's stock management sucks though. There were no stock for many days, and had to go unorthodox methods to get my hands on a unit.
It's remarkable that AMD can even compete despite not having access to 5nm like the M1 does.
I'm very excited for the near future of 5nm AMD laptops. Even more for 3nm.
It's nice to see the CPU space heating up in recent years.
(edit: Not precision, is inspiron.)
Where? The only 5850U laptop I can find is the HP EliteBook 845 G8, and that starts at over $2300 for a 5850U model.