Because 8GiB is insufficient for most work in 2025, so cheap Macbook is simply better Chromebook at this point: https://videocardz.com/newz/pcgh-demonstrates-why-8gb-gpus-a...

And 16GiB VRAM insufficient for games:

https://videocardz.com/newz/pcgh-demonstrates-why-8gb-gpus-a...

Also, 3nm M4 is going head-to-head with older Ryzen AI 365 in everything except for power efficiency: https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m4-vs-amd-ryzen-...

When compared in multicore against Ryzen AI Pro laptops (high end), even Apple M5 are behind in the dust...

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_ai_max_p...

Despite awesome progress with its latest ARM processors, Apple was caught behind Ryzen, and is threatened by next generation of Zen processors.