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even the original M1 Pro 14" 16GB/512GB is better than 90% of the garbage on the market. I bought one for ~$800 off Woot and it's more powerful than I need buy a wide margin, and I regularly do video editing in 4K.
Microsoft simply cannot figure out ARM architecture for some reason. Even the Qualcomm laptops they have out now don't match the battery life or overall compute power.
Why Apple hasn't decided to upgrade the original M1 Air to M2/M3 get the remaining juice out of that machine tooling is weird to me. They could undercut the entire under $500 laptop segment with value and totally shred the low end of Microsoft laptops forever. The iPad just isn't the same as a legitimate laptop until they get macOS on it for the same price point.