> But is anyone else shocked at how well the transition to ARM has gone for Apple?

I totally get why some folks would want to wait for the next-gen of these initial machines, but I'm not surprised at how well it's gone.

I chose to buy the initial M1 MacBook Air model right-off-the-bat. The reason for this is that I went through the last two Mac CPU arch transitions (68k -> PPC, PPC -> x86), and the way Apple was able to handle those was truly impressive to me. Plus I really needed more built-in storage ASAP :)