It’s very easy to look this up. And the claim is false.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html

No, Intel CPUs are not better in the laptop department.

Models are not developed and trained locally on low-power devices, however.

That’s debatable.

I think the point of linking this comic is to highlight that your workflow is both uncommon and pathologically insane.

They are effectively one and the same. You cannot use JellyFin without a client.

There is a huge disparity in the quality, UX, and features of the clients. Many clients are missing basic features like scrubbing, subtitles, saving position, etc… Many platform-specific clients are people’s pet projects and quickly lose support or are half baked.

Furthermore my wife and kids are not technical the way I am—when things don’t work properly they can’t debug & diagnose, they simply can’t use it. And I personally don’t want to spend my time diagnosing why I can’t fast-forward a TV show and so on.

Show me an AppleTV JellyFin client that “just works”. Something my mom & dad could use to watch a movie. Something that can do normal media player things like seeking or subtitles.

There is a huge disparity in the quality, support, and features of the various clients.

The quality and features of JellyFin are nowhere close to Plex. I have used both for years.