I love how they prefaced the GPU performance as better than other Windows computers "in their class" meaning with an integrated GPU. How does it fair versus a discreet GPU PC? I'm guessing it gets blown out of the water. With the M1 announcement, are we looking at never seeing a discreet GPU in a Mac again? Cause that would be a shame. Unfortunately, I don't think integrated GPUs will ever reach the same power level. So once again we'll be using machines that are not as fast or as powerful as they could be, while Windows PCs continue to outpace them. I mean at best the CPU and SSD could be better than Intel? But what's to prevent Intel from out-innovating Apple once again?
It's looking more and more like my next computer will be a self-built hackintosh or a Windows PC. I despise the Windows UI, but it's almost worth it to me to be able to finally enjoy games that I've been unable to play or have been horrendously slow and bug-ridden for the past decade due to Apple's stubbornness. I'm still gaming on my 2011 MacbokPro with a discreet GPU. I'll probably just get a larger SSD and partition and bootcamp it when my games drop support for older Mac OSs.
I like how Apple always wants to show people playing games but never actually want to even attempt to cater to major gaming developers or craft affordable and expandable PCs. And Metal is not a great answer to DirectX. In fact it screwed over people like me. Heroes of the Storm comes to mind. I can't even launch the game anymore, because Blizzard had to make it compatible with Metal. Even though my graphics card handled it just fine, they cut support for older OSs that didn't include Metal support. But what's hilarious is I could install Windows via Bootcamp, and Windows will run it just fine on my Mac, probably even better. I mean you just have to laugh.
I thought I'd give Apple a chance with this new ARM processor, but they're clearly going their own path again like what they did with the PowerPC. I suspect they will go through this great conversion only to find that Intel has once again out-innovated them. History might not repeat itself, but I bet will rhyme.