Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

I am really looking forward to where this goes.

That said, I am definitely waiting for at least one generation to pass before I jump on the train.

I’ve been through this before. It will be great, but Apple is a master at smoke & mirrors. Things will not go as smoothly as the sizzle reels make it seem.

I'm hoping that at least the basics will be here (posix shell, vim, browser, etc), I won't need anything else for a long long time.

Like the grandparent comment, I would avoid this M1 Macbook since the developer ecosystem is still unsupported by it. Take this for example: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733

Docker still doesn't run on Apple Silicon Macs, so the migration path is already disrupted here.

Not everyone needs to run Docker.