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First off, we get it. The M1 Pro and the M1 Max are the best PC CPUs on the market right now. Still, why compare MacBooks to gaming laptops?
Gaming laptops are designed to run the most Steam games at the highest FPS at whatever price range they are trying to reach. They aren't designed for photo and video editing, music production, data analysis, desktop publishing, CAD, software engineering, 2D/3D animation and VFX, data science and the other workloads are actually used for. 

So what are we talking about here? For CPUs, you want the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS or HX. Or you want the Intel Core i9-11900H or 11950H. For GPUs, the Nvidia 3080X is the absolute minimum. But if you are doing content creation or engineering/scientific work: the Radeon Pro W5500M or the Nvidia RTX Ax000 line are the GPUs to compare.

Dell strangely doesn't play in this sandbox (though I mention that their Xeon CPU/Nvidia RTX A5000 GPU data science laptops can cost less than several 16' MacBook Pro configurations). But for those who do, start with the Razer Blade 14: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX and Nvidia RTX 3080, which they claim as the world's most powerful 14' laptop!

Then go to theThe HP ZBook Studio (content creation) and ZBook Fury (CAD/engineering) lines. Next consider the Asus ProArt Studio line. Finally consider the Lenovo ThinkPad P15 and P17 Gen 2. Those are machines that should actually be compared to the M1 Pro and M1 Max devices. If you want to compare x86 devices that will be used to do the same things that MacBooks are actually used for that is.