I am a M1 Max user and I would love to have Apple go back to Intel.

Sure, the battery life and not overheating is great, but you are limited to Arm based solutions, when installing linux VMs for example. Or gaming. Everyone seems to have forgotten how awesome it was to be able to do everything on one machine.

It is a compromise I live with, not something I prefer.

And at least half of Apple’s benefit comes from process technology, where the gap will be closing very soon, if for no other reason than the fact that after 2nm there is not much more room to grow with silicon, so even laggards will have time to catch up on process and yields.

The would has been running on x86 for so long it’s a waste to just decide to rework so many chunks of it.