Shouldn’t you be comparing newer processors? The M4 was released in 2024. Comparing it to top-of-the-line X1E-84-100 (X1E-00-1DE benchmarks aren’t available yet, I believe), the M4 destroys them. I mean, we can debate about the price, if we just limit ourselves to an Arm architecture, but a 12-core, 24-thread CPU getting it’s ass whopped by a 9-core, 18-thread CPU tells us clearly who is in the win here.

Oh, and mind you, thermals for the Qualcomm processors are far terrible than the x86_64 CPUs. The AMD processors, especially the 7040/8040 is the clear winner here, when it comes to price-vs-performance - also being equipped with some of the best iGPUs. Intel’s efficiency cores are garbage - they gave up on long-sough processor technologies, like hyper-threading, for instance, and then there’s this oxidation fiasco, so I’d not recommend them anymore. The M4 does really well for a premium-segment processor - obviously, it is expensive, but it is really good at what it does.

The X1, along with poor emulation support, terrible thermals, and lack of software support isn’t the best choice, unless you’re okay with going all-Linux - which again, and let me tell you, Rust support for Arm is bad. I’ve tried using a Jetson Nano, it was the worst Linux experience I’ve had - yes, Nvidia sucks balls, but Arm isn’t that easy to work on with.

As a RISC fanboy, x86_64 is still a good pick, at least if you’re not a dev and a tinkerer. There’s a lot of work pending, even after the existence of Arm PCs for almost a decade.