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Desktop spans a wide range. Mac minis should be compared against NUCs or cheap PCs, not high-end PCs.

M4 is Apple's top-of-the-line CPU design atm and this very same CPU is used across all their products and not only Mac Mini's. It's used in MacBook Pro.

Is M4 TDP different in MacBook Pro than what it is in Mac Mini?

M4 is Apple's weakest CPU.

It is not. It is more powerful than M1 and M2 and somewhat at the margin with the M3.

> M4 delivers up to 1.5x faster CPU performance over the powerful M2

This is from Apple's first public announcement of M4.

Was there a single laptop chip included in the benchmark?

They are comparing a 5w CPU with 80-200w ones.. which is entirely pointless.

I don't think it is entirely pointless but what I think it is pointless is to presumably leave so much performance on the table for a device that does not even run on a battery.

There were no laptops being compared...

Performance per watt is a thing that matters for systems where you don't have a lot of watts. Desktops are not that.

Cost matters. Let's not forget about electricity/cooling cost as well.

That said, I wonder what would desktop cost that is better or equal in https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0 on m4 mini. Does it even exist?