[macjohnmcc]

Last year I upgraded from a early 2013 15" MBP to the 16" Max and it's like a whole new world. Way more storage and memory. I can imagine going from the same machine to the M2 would be amazing but from M1 to M2 not enough of a bump to pay the price.

[bdcravens]

Last year I upgraded to an M1 Pro; this year a coworker took that machine and I bumped up to an M2 Max. I can't really tell a difference.

[sliken]

Not surprising. M1 pro -> m1 max = same number of cores at the same speed. So only if you are doing something CPU intensive and not cache friendly would you notice the memory bandwidth doubling.

M1 generation -> M2 generation is a pretty small difference, not something you'd normally notice. In my experience unless using a stopwatch or running benchmarks folks don't usually notice improvements till they get into the 1.5 to 2x range.