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> It wouldn't be fair to compare it to something that starts at $1000.

But that's my point: first-gen M1 Air is still available and costs 600 USD.

You're right, I skimmed over the latter part of your comment. I don't know about your claim that M1/M2 will outperform Wildcat Lake in performance and battery life though, do we know specific figures to be able to say that for sure?

M1/M2 matches Panther lake i5 chips in performance and still excels at efficiency. Hard to imagine Wildcat can do anything extra here.

I'm sorry but your first claim has no basis in reality. Any benchmark shows the lowest end Panther Lake chip performing at least 15% faster than M1 and 10% faster than M2 in single core performance which is where Apple Silicon excels, and greatly outperforming them in both multi-core and GPU performance while having equivalent battery life.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/7322vs4922/Intel-5-315-...

Not sure what you're referring to. 5-10% of different is exactly what I meant by "matching". The real-life battery numbers also don't support your statement, as tested by e.g. notebookcheck.com

And, again, the actual context is Wildcat Lake here, an step down from Panther Lake.

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