The Ryzen 5650 is certainly not faster than the base MacBook Air M2. The 5650 does 1848/7191 in Geekbench, M2 2560/9566. Heck, even the 2.5 years old M1 is faster at 2322/8243.
I fell for the Ryzen laptop hype and bought one around the time of the M1 that was supposed to be about as fast as the M1. In practice it started throttling pretty fast and the performance was way worse than the M1. Also, the battery life was ~3 hours under normal workloads on Linux (with most power optimizations done) and ~6-7 hours on Windows.
The price definitely can't be beat though. Even though a laptop with a 5650, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD for $400 sounds really unbelievable? Those specs usually go for at least $1200. Do you have a link?
I have an Intel MacBook. It does pale in comparison to the M-series.
I bought it from eBay as “used, like new” and bought the memory and nvme myself for the best deals I could find (they’re cheap these days)
