[stouset]

The first M1 laptop was released in 2020. It's been met with more or less universal praise: performance is impressive, performance per watt is mind-boggling, and the overwhelming majority of popular programs and applications have either been ported to Apple Silicon by now or work adequately in Rosetta 2.

It's almost as if you meant to post this comment a year ago.

[TillE]

And you can be pretty sure that the M1 Pro/Max will be great because it's mostly just more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and maybe a few extra features.

You could probably work out its likely benchmark results on paper within some small margin of error.