This is why for high performance I wouldn’t ever bother with a laptop. They’re expensive, slow CPUs because of thermal limitations and concern with saving energy for long battery life, and 802.11xx is slow compared with gigabit or 10gig wired ethernet.
ARM64 presumably isn’t as fast as desktop/server Intel x64 or top-end Ryzen CPUs?
I just got my first ever Macbook Pro, Apple Silicon ARM64 is very much faster than my Intel i9 9900k desktop in CPU (which honestly is faster than most peoples PCs) and the 16" model does not throttle on battery. The top end model (I couldn't afford that one) also gets awfully close to PC mobile GPUs top performance, but it does have to throttle if you max out the CPU and GPU concurrently.
It also has the best screen on the market, absolutely floored how insane its HDR support is compared to my LG OLED TV, the sound is equally as impressive.
I'm really not a fan of Apple or MacOS. I'm growing to hate MacOS with a passion as its lagging behind every other OS is ease of use and how they are using a none-standard UK keyboard layout on their laptops with very shallow keys so its really hard to type on, but its far less compromised than every other laptop I've owned. (except the inability to upgrade the internals in any way, this was necessary to get that performance)
I actually
benchmark all my devices for a rough comparison between them and you can see how ARM64 is likely to murder Ryzen once they make a Mac Pro based on it. Apple have the huge advantage of being able to re-work the hardware and OS in parallel so they can use fixed-purpose silicon to offload tasks that are inefficient on general purpose CPUs, while software still just sees the same APIs.
Back to WiFi, on a good day, 802.11ax gets awfully close to Gigabit wired, I just wish it was more consistent seeing as I'm right in front of the Access Point. I think this is mostly down to radio spectrum sharing, there could be any number of devices using the spectrum that wont show up to a WiFi card except as background noise. The idea is 6Ghz should suffer from this less as it was only really used for point to point links. We absolutely need a spectrum that is ONLY used for WiFi devices so they can see each other and use time division multiple access to properly organise airtime fairness.