My OP talked exactly about claims (and there are many at least around me) of outperforming in terms of raw power.
I never argued with the fact that ARM allows to stick a couple of very low-power cores, while x86 doesn't.
In terms of "lightweight laptop with decent performance" MBP (the discussion is about new stuff after all) is less interesting, because it's heavier, more expensive, and probably doesn't provide much added value. M1 was revolution (mostly because someone took ARM and put in popular laptop and took the burden of software transition), those are much less so.
I can see myself getting MBA if I'll need something small and cheap and there won't be decent competition (maybe Google's Chromebooks? Or something from Samsung?), but not MBP (mostly because I dislike Apple's UX and I think competition is decent). I'd consider if it was say outperforming Intel by 50% in single core tasks.
I never argued with the fact that ARM allows to stick a couple of very low-power cores, while x86 doesn't.
In terms of "lightweight laptop with decent performance" MBP (the discussion is about new stuff after all) is less interesting, because it's heavier, more expensive, and probably doesn't provide much added value. M1 was revolution (mostly because someone took ARM and put in popular laptop and took the burden of software transition), those are much less so.
I can see myself getting MBA if I'll need something small and cheap and there won't be decent competition (maybe Google's Chromebooks? Or something from Samsung?), but not MBP (mostly because I dislike Apple's UX and I think competition is decent). I'd consider if it was say outperforming Intel by 50% in single core tasks.