You can call Apple Silicon a lot of things but “not performant” isn’t one of them. In laptops they’ve demolished Windows offerings for years (Lunar Lake is only just now trading blows with M3), and in desktops I don’t think you’re getting any better CPU performance at that price point (especially considering it comes with a 4k monitor).
The caveat is GPU and gaming performance, but people really shouldn’t expect much from integrated graphics.
You can call Apple Silicon a lot of things but “not performant” isn’t one of them. In laptops they’ve demolished Windows offerings for years (Lunar Lake is only just now trading blows with M3), and in desktops I don’t think you’re getting any better CPU performance at that price point (especially considering it comes with a 4k monitor).
The caveat is GPU and gaming performance, but people really shouldn’t expect much from integrated graphics.