Sean M (sean.delete@this.none.com) on June 16, 2022 1:00 am wrote:
> > Apple M2 matches only the obsolete Rocket Lake, while having a gap in ST performance of more than 15% vs.
> > desktop Alder Lake and Zen 4 (more than 10% vs. laptop Alder Lake) and an even greater gap vs. Raptor Lake.
>
> Those are interesting observations but you have to admit that very few consumers deciding between
> a Mac or Windows care about a 15% difference in single threaded CPU performance. For the vast majority
> of consumers it comes down to the better security and privacy of a Mac versus the lower price and
> more third-party desktop software for Windows. Being able to run some iOS/iPadOS apps on Macs sounds
> great in theory but it’s currently much too difficult to find good apps in the Apple App Store.
> When developers start making good use of Apple’s Neural Engine to do things that can’t be done
> at all on Windows PCs, that could become a significant difference maker.


I think performance matters much less than a 15% threshold would dislodge, because I believe most people decide between Windows and Mac before they even look at performance figures (and remember the majority of PC buyers don't EVER look at benchmarks)

Even a 50% performance difference wouldn't get someone wanting a Mac to switch to Windows, or someone who has always bought Windows to buy a Mac. Now if the gap was 2x that might change, but there's no chance we'll ever see anything remotely close to that.