Intel’s Alder Lake Core i9 versus Apple’s M1 Max

Intel’s Alder Lake processor is starting to become available in PC laptops and that means one thing: benchmarks! Macworld’s sister publication, PCWorld, posted a review of one of the first laptops with the Core i9-12900HK processor (code‑named Alder Lake), and it inevitably got us thinking about Apple’s M1 Pro and Max.

To be clear, PCWorld didn’t include Apple silicon in its review – they are reviewing Windows-based laptops and comparing Alder Lake to its predecessor and a new 8-core Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU. Many of the benchmark programs PCWorld