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The MSI main advantages are:
1. Upgradeability (RAM and M2 SSD)
2. Hardware ray tracing for pros.
3. Games!

The MacBook main advantages are:
1. More powerful CPU.
2. Much more VRAM for pros.
3. Better screen
4. It's a Mac.

If games are what you want on your laptop, you will be getting a Windows gaming laptop as there effectively are no games for the Mac (Apple having systematically and intentionally having killed them off by ejecting NVIDIA and not supporting industry standards like Vulkan or 32 bit backward compatibility). The MSI is a pretty solid choice for games but there are many others to consider as well.

Ray tracing in hardware renders about five times faster than doing it with software on the GPU and over a thousand times faster than on a CPU. Hopefully it will appear on the M2 next year. However if hardware ray tracing is what you need, there are better laptops than that gamer MSI.

For all other users (video creators for example), I would recommend the MacBook Pro.

Fun question: The MacBook Air and the iPad Pro have the same processor. They cost roughly the same price. They are both thin and reasonably light. The iPad Pro has a detachable keyboard while the MacBook Air has an attached keyboard. Be honest, why would many (most?) people only consider getting the Mac Book Air rather than the iPad Pro?

The answer is the operating system. As The Verge just said, "iPadOS continues to underwhelm and disappoint". iPadOS goes out of its way to prevent you from doing the things you need to do. You don't get to decide what software you run, Apple does. You don't get to decide which parts of the hardware you own you can use, Apple does. Mac OS lets you run amazing software like Parallels, Photoshop or Steam. iPadOS does not. Why is this? The hardware is nearly identical so why does Apple make iPadOS so limited? Why can't it put MacOS on the iPad with a touch screen user interface? Why can't it make iPadOS have the same open nature that MacOS has?

This all comes down to Apple's management's need to control everything. This is not good for business. It is not good for customers. It is a form of insanity.

Super desirable 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro just got even more desirable. Looking forwards to seeing GeekBench results when using the battery, plugged in and with performance mode enabled.

The 2016 MacBook Pro is the poster child for function following form. Design had too much power within Apple at that time. It is why we saw the removal of vital features that the pros relied upon ripped out of the product for no reason anyone could clearly state. Johnny Ive should shoulder much of the blame since he lead the division when the product was designed. Johnny likes nice clean shapes without any holes for silly things like HDMI, a SD card slot, ethernet plug or heaven forbid, headphone jacks. He currently works for Ferrari and is trying to figure out how to get rid of those pesky doors.

We know the pattern now. The Mx chip comes out first. It has a new architecture and is aimed at the low end/low power models while the Mx higher performance variants (Pro/Max/?) come out the following year. The M1 was put in the Mac mini, MacBook Air, iPad Pro, and the iMac 24". The M1 Pro/Max went into the MacBook Pros the following year.
Here is my prediction based purely on extrapolation: In 2022 we can expect to see the M2 in the Mac mini, MacBook Air and iPad Pro. The consumer iMacs will get the M1 Pro/Max possibly in the first half of the year (consumer iMacs traditionally have had laptop components). The M2 Pro/Max/? will appear in the iMac Pro and Mac Pro which will complete the transition to Apple Silicon will be released in late 2022 or some time in 2023. From then on we should expect tick/tock releases of new Apple Silicon on a bi-annual refresh of each while the A series iPhone/iPad chips which will remain on an annual refresh.