alt Hacker NewsHardware-wise the peak is obviously the M-series. Ditching x86 while simultaneously nearly flawlessly emulating x86 apps via Rosetta - making the transition to ARM64 completely painless - was a landmark achievement.
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I think it is CPU / SOC Wise. There is no reason why you cant have old MacBook with M Series. ( Apart from Memory ). All things about previous MacBook Pro still stand. And they could still have all the features while being thinner and lighter.
As a non Apple user, yeah, M series are neat in the sense that the premium you pay goes into barring the competition from accessing the current nodes at TSMC, making Apple look good on benchmarks for 12-18 months or so. Apple used to have something else to offer, a sense of novelty, excitement, taste, and couldn't care less about performance. Apple of today is just Samsung/Gates' Microsoft "look at how big mine is!", with more bucks and even more user-hostile practices.
Current gen is the most optimized but I don’t get that “oh that clever” feeling from interacting with it. It’s all been simplified, which makes it solid and reliable, but that’s about it.