none of my old Steam games work on Monterey.
My M1 Air and M1 Pro MBP run everything I need to use, so far. I’m probably just kidding myself that I will ever need my old Intels for anything that I can’t get now. Actually, maybe it has more to do with nostalgia.
Googling it looks like that card is compared to a 2070, but does not support ray tracing. Downside as well to an iMac is you are stuck with that GPU. That is an expensive gaming computer that you can not replace the CPU, GPU, PSU or anything else in besides the RAM yourself. Personally I find Macs way to limiting for gaming, that GPU is fine I am sure if it is comparable to a 2070, but again you are stuck with it.
It's a fine line between 'museum' and 'junkyard'.
I think at this stage, you can make the switch without much issue, unless you use a lot of legacy software (for example you have Mojave on an external SSD to run 32-bit apps, etc.)
For curiosity’s sake: do you still find it useful to have both a laptop and a desktop? I used to have the same setup in the Intel days because the iMacs were much more powerful than the MacBook Airs back then. But since 2020 I simply have an M1 MacBook Air which I connect at a dock with all the peripherals connected to it whenever I need to use it as a desktop.
If nothing else, my Mini runs Time Machine to a local disk, and the MBP is synced to the Mini using Resilio Sync, so that whatever I do on the Mini gets updated on the MBP.
It's a more powerful GPU than the AMD GPU in my Xbox One X. I am not going to buy a desktop PC just to play games. I don't have the room and the really high end GPUs are hard to find and expensive right now.
You certainly don't need four Intel Macs. How old are you Intel Macs, are they desktop or laptop.
I can do all that and more on my Intel Mac (I don't use the Adobe suite anymore though). My Intel Mac has 64gb of RAM which lets me keep a lot of stuff open at once. It's not a laptop of course.
If it works for you great! Nothing against it and surprised they had a GPU that good in the iMac, generally they are behind. Comparing to a console is not all that accurate. The hardware in a console is all made to work together and will be better then just stand alone parts. Like Apple you can't compare Apple computers and phones to Windows or Android purely based on specs, Apple hardware is very efficient and works very well together giving you more for less in many cases.
Well the GPU in the Xbox One X is an AMD GPU like the GPU in the iMac and the Xbox runs a version of Windows and uses the same DirectX Apis used for Windows games. The CPUs aren't particularly comparable in performance but they both use the AMD derived x64 instruction set. So, if you run Windows in Bootcamp, the tech stack isn't that different.
If you’re mobile, Apple Silicon is a massive step forward. I just went on vacation in Panama and brought my Air for light use to check up in my business for 30-60 minutes a day. I went an entire week without charging my machine and it had half its battery life remaining when I went home.
Speaking for myself, I prefer to always have two computers. For a short period of time during the begining of the pandemic I was limited to a MBP and an Air.
The only Intel app I run is "Beyond Compare" and it is just fine in Rosetta. I do have a problem with a python app that is probably related to other issues related to doing an update/upgrade.
I have MBA m1 I bought recently and also a desktop hackintosh, i9 10900, 32GB of RAM, 1TB m2 Samsung SSD and Radeon RX580. I use both and both got their share of usage, MBA is for mobile and desktop, well, for desk work. Software wise, they both got same software, but the desktop has Intel versions and M1 mostly M1 apps. There is no need for breakup from anything, but eventually Apple will in few years stop Intel development so all of that will happen naturally, no worries and you don't need to force anything.
