>with little to no desire to get out of it. Unless they want to break out of the tribal mentality and start working together towards their betterment

Ah yes. They are there because they want to be. /s

Apple Silicon has been pretty great battery life even for the Pro computers.

M1 13" Pro and M1 Pro 16" Pro both had longer battery life than the M1 Air.

Hm, I don't see it that was at all.

If we look at how Intel chips scale, we see that single core performance actually decreases on the largest chips. That's why historically the Xeon Mac Pro would actually have a lower single core performance than the similar generation i5 or i7.

Of course the Xeon would more than make up for it by having tons of cores, more PCIe lanes, support for ECC RAM, etc.

I think it would be fantastic if the M1 Supermega or whatever they end up calling the Mac Pro chip matches the M1 single core performance.

Not really sure what you're saying. Single core is pretty consistent between M1 to M1 Ultra

I think M1 Max is basically 2 M1 chips and M1 Ultra is basically 4 M1 chips

Yes when the net benefit of collecting it comes at a lower cost than the benefit of having it those few times you actually need it.