Got to love the fact that performance matters... until suddenly it doesn't.

Of course, a lot of people use MacBooks to code, for photo editing, art and illustration, video editing, etc.. All cases where performance does tend to matter.

And with peformance comes capabilties. People are editing 4K video now as a matter of course. Being able to do so w/o dropping frames, with real-time effects, is a big win.

And the numbers always seem to be increaasing. Larger images, higher resolution images, higher bitrates and bit depths... all are impacted by performance.

The "average user" also benefits from background scanning and tagging of information for search, tagging photos with faces.... all things that make life easier but also where they don't want their computers slowing to a crawl or their fans to suddenly go on high in order to get them.

So no, I'd have to disagree.