I agree the lowest specced fanless MacBook Air is very appealing at its price point. But for laptops with fans, if you want to do gaming or AI the performance of a laptop with Nvidia will blow away anything from Apple, and the 2024 version of the ROG Zephyrus G14 looks pretty good.
And catastrophically slower. I think a lot of people who are downloading llama.cpp to run on their M-series MacBook Pro or spending $$$ on high-RAM Mac Studios for AI are not actually aware that Nvidia GPUs are often literally ten times faster for the same applications. You'll almost always be better off either running on a local gaming GPU for things that fit or renting GPUs in the cloud for things that don't, just because the performance gap is so massive.
