Fast enough for most ultrabook users. Being fastest this year is really not a big deal. If you're doing heavy media, gaming, or compiling you'll be on a different form factor.
Yeah, but there's no reason for it - if you've ever used an ARM laptop system you'll see that you're just trading usable performance (they tend to be very laggy) for not much benefit. Modern AMD/Intel mobile Ultrabook chips aren't that much more power hungry.
No, I wrote what I meant. I own both an M2 Mac, ARM Chromebook and Zen4 AMD laptop and the MacBook and AMD laptop are quite comparable these days, it's not like I run out of battery on any of them regularly.
The Qualcomm powered Chromebook is the outlier with noticeably worse performance.
> it's not like I run out of battery on any of them regularly.
It all depends on how and where your power adapters are scattered in your office. I definitely like not worrying about that with the Apples while, with the Dell, I'm constantly mindful about where the adaptor is (and carry one in my backpack).
Yeah, I could confidently take my MacBook on a day trip sans charger, but I have yet to own a contemporary x86 laptop that could I could do the same with. That said, my newest x86 laptop is Intel Tiger Lake which wasn’t ever really good in that department.
The range of use cases including media, gaming and compiling on similar form factor MacBook Air Mx is enormous compared to this similarly priced laptop.
