What simply happened? We already knew that Intel and Apple's relationship turned sour after the latter started opting for its in-house silicon over Chipzilla's. At Computex 2022, squad blue really burnt its bridges with Cupertino, making sure that everyone knows Macs are inferior to Windows-based laptops when it comes to gaming.

During the event, Intel said its Windows laptops "provide a better gaming experience than 100% of Apple Mac laptops." That could be a response to Apple'south previous claims that the M1 SoC boasts the globe'southward fastest CPU core, which on its website clarifies that this is "when it comes to depression-power silicon." Nevertheless, the M1 has been a revelation, leading to Intel launching an advertising campaign mocking M1-powered MacBooks and bringing dorsum the "I'm a Mac" actor Justin Long to diss Apple.

Intel didn't hold back at Computex. Equally information technology has done in the past, the company highlighted how over one-half of today's almost popular games aren't supported on macOS, including Cyberpunk 2077, Apex Legends, GTA V, PUBG, and Valorant. It also showed the inferiority of emulators by running Valheim through Parallels, which looks pretty terrible even on low settings.

Information technology's wasn't just the M1-powered Macs that Intel went afterwards. It showed a slide comparison a MacBook Pro packing a Core i9 9980HK and AMD Radeon Pro 5600M to an Intel-branded system with a Core i5 11400H and a GeForce RTX 3060. The Windows motorcar was way ahead in all the benchmarks.

In addition to showing how much meliorate its PCs are for games, which we've long known, Intel besides illustrated how an increasing number of creators—the MacBooks' traditional customers—also use their laptops for gaming, suggesting that Windows machines would be the ameliorate pick.

Apple is aiming to complete the transition to its in-business firm silicon by 2022, and so go used to seeing this sort of shade-throwing from Intel.

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