What exists now cannot be used to determine what will exist in the future... I have an M1 mini with 16gb/1tb... I use Parallels and almost every single game I own runs flawless... plus if I do anything other than game my mini beats the shit out of every single PC I have ever owned on that front, and it does it while sipping power even when hammered... and that is running Windows 11 through Parallels.
Getting an M1 Max, and comparing it against laptops that it can spank without missing a beat is kind of stupid considering you are only comparing GPU performance
Not to mention that the performance / watt cannot be matched by ANYTHING in the market. So if you want a $400 electric bill, sure, it's possible to beat the M1 Max but not with the state of CISC CPUs currently... not at the same performance/watt
There are more things than games in the world, and even gamers do those things. Some gamers even do video editing @ 8k for example. If you have the room for one system in your life, you are better off using an M1 Max with it's boosted editing performance and encoders built in rather than a gaming laptop from the PC realm that will perform like shit when editing 8k streams for your gaming videos. Otherwise, you need a mac AND a PC... one to game on, and one to edit on (in a reasonable amount of time)... make no mistake, 8k is the future, and it's better to be future proof to some degree rather than be constantly trying to catch up.