Most of what you point out I totally agree with. Thing is, right now, it’s all *marketing* and no *substance* from Microsoft for the vast majority of the current market. Alder Lake does indeed work as intended with Windows 11 but (a) there’s *vast* room for improvement based on all the reviews I read/watched so far and (b) it does not mean that the performance/efficiency core-optimized OS scheduler could not be backported to Windows 10.

But Microsoft will not bother doing that, because the marketing aspect of it comes into play again — which relates to just *two* processors in all of 2021. I really hope that they iron out all the kinks in the coming months and work with AMD on the next Ryzen processors because Apple, as things stand, has humiliated all three companies with the macOS/M1 integration.