At first I was skeptical, but I've seen nothing but good things about the M1. I'm now desperately waiting for the 16" M1. My 2015 Pro is starting to show it's age.
Or 4:3 screen, but we can keep dreaming there...
My hope is that they offer the touchbar as a configurable option on all MacBooks going forward, at least until they realize no one is buying the ones with the touchbar included. Maybe some video editors like it? It's a failed experiment from where I'm sitting.
The ironic thing is that I would use it a lot, if, and only if, there were any browser which displays tabs as favicons on the touch bar.
But there just... isn't. It's completely baffling, the Safari preview is useless and Firefox has a 'touch to select address bar' button which I always forget is there.
But I also wouldn't be particularly sad if it disappeared.
Getting rid of the Touch Bar might be realistic. If only it were realistic that they would add a USB-A and HDMI port back to it too...
But many little things, like the smoothness of the OS, or the way that the screen wakes from sleep instantly are just superior to my much more expensive, and power hungry desktop. Of course, my desktop can still cream it in a GPU workload but for programming, it's amazing.
You see it in the iPhones and the variant SKUs, and Canon and Nikon also had been doing this when there wasn't competition eating their lunch.
Of course the problem is whether they can cut the line ...