I do not know, i m an happy m1pro user on a laptop and i will never go back to pc after being a pc only person for 35 years ( I'm 45 now ). All that count is the software you want to run. Once gaming takes less space in your life, or you are happy to play on a playstation, there is really no match between a mac and a pc. Of course if what you want is running the last game at the last high settings available you should look no other place than at a 4090 or 5090 and the latest intel or amd cpu, but at that point you shouldn't mention apple prices. You look at performance, apple users look at something else and the price/whatyoucareabout ratio is the same.

About the nodes and the technology, i don't think node parity will make performance parity. Apple has what it has because it didn't care for backward compatibility, once intel or amd break free from that prison maybe they get a great cpu design, but then they need to find a userbase for it if it runs x86 in emulation.

asturur:

About the nodes and the technology, i don't think node parity will make performance parity. Apple has what it has because it didn't care for backward compatibility, once intel or amd break free from that prison maybe they get a great cpu design, but then they need to find a userbase for it if it runs x86 in emulation.

AMD and Intel already have CPUs that outperform Apple's best in single and multithreaded applications. The problem is performance per watt, and that is highly dependent on the node.