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> As a comparsion a quick build on PCPartPicker: Xeon E5 22 core, Radeon RX 6900 XT, case, power supply, 64 gb of ram, motherboard, 1TB SSD and CPU cooler. Comes in at just shy of $5,000

And that's just the parts. Don't forget the M1 Ultra will use less electrical power too.

If anything this just reminds me how frustrating their product line was pre-M1 for so many years. I'm still dealing with the legacy of having to work with people with 16GB as the ceiling and projects that simply do not fit in them.

If RAM is your bottleneck, then you will still have the same problem. Apple still ships 8GB machines.

I'm not speaking 8GB as an end-user problem, but as a developer problem. Most of my developing machines are 32GB+ but I have to create successful workflows for macbooks that only have 16GB.

Don't forget that any of the M1-family chips are absolutely crushing the competition in single-core performance.

Eh, not so much today. M1, Alder Lake, and Zen 3 are all pretty close in single core performance. Of course M1 easily wins in power efficiency.