>First of all, Apple CPUs are not the fastest. In fact top 20 fastest CPUs right now is probably an AMD and Intel only affair.

You are comparing 256 AMD Zen6c Core to What? M4 Max?

When people say CPU they meant CPU Core, And in terms of Raw Speed, Apple CPU holds the fastest single core CPU benchmarks.

M4 pro 16 cores is #13 among laptops:

	▲	indemnity 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’re still looking at the multi core score, you want this one: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/ Where the M5 (non-pro, the one that will be in the next MacBook Air) is on top. When the M5 multicore scores arrive, the multi-core charts will be interesting.