Fact-checking the benchmarks: Intel’s Alder Lake Core i9 vs 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