I have an 8core xeon laptop from work. it's thin, it's insanely fast, it has 128GB of RAM. I can set the profile to quiet, and the CPU doesn't boost and the fans never come on.

Here's what I can do, that a MBP cannot do - run a whole bunch of crap that doesn't run on ARM - most vendor tools that aren't browser based.

The MBP is a laptop, it's fast, but it's not a "pro" laptop. Pro means I can plug it in with a brick-sized power brick, draw 200 watts, and with lots of loud fans get some major work done. And when I don't run a heavy-hitter script? easily 9 hours of battery life.

M1 is not that much more faster than intel - it just has a lot of precompiled procedures in hardware. The reason no one else did what apple did? Because normal companies design their computer for what it needs to run. Apple designs their computer and says - world, you now have to build all your software for this computer. Well, that's why pretty much nothing I use runs on macs.