But when it comes to raw performance I was pretty damn disappointed.
I'm curious what you mean by "raw performance"? I'm no Apple enthusiast, but AFAIK the M1 is the fastest laptop CPU on the market. There are faster desktop CPUs, but I don't think that makes it "a phone CPU shoehorned into a clamshell body" — it beats pretty much any laptop CPU in existence in the benchmarks I've seen.
I'm curious what you mean by "raw performance"? I'm no Apple enthusiast, but AFAIK the M1 is the fastest laptop CPU on the market. There are faster desktop CPUs, but I don't think that makes it "a phone CPU shoehorned into a clamshell body" — it beats pretty much any laptop CPU in existence in the benchmarks I've seen.