I'm really hyped too! But for now my company mb pro 16" i9 will do the trick.

Still wondering - my company uses Macbook Pros for everything, and as a Principal IT Systems Engineer, I'm certainly a power user. However, I mostly work on systems remotely, i.e. just SSH sessions or CLI tools to work on servers, so I don't really need this power. But so far, a Macbook Air was way too lightweight and the screen too small to work productively.

But with the Macbook Air 15, I might as well request this instead of the latest Macbook Pro 16 when I'm due for a new device next year. Not really sure I care about any of the differences in spec - other than maybe the extra ports and the ability to connect a second external monitor, but I guess I can life with both. And while the Macbook Pro 16 has considerably better specs, My 2019 (Intel-based) Macbook Pro 16 seems about on par and spec-wise I'm still more than happy - just battery life and heat are problems.

The caveat: the Air still gets hot. It was hotter in the area right above the function row than I wanted to touch during pretty much all of my benchmark testing. The keyboard, while usable, was toasty.

Ah man, I was under the impression that these laptops wouldn't get that hot with the new chips.

You really like the m chip pros then. Amazing battery life, and I’ve never hit any heart problems.

Once you get to 16gb ram and 512gb of ssd, it gets so damn close to the 14 mbp and then you get a much better machine. If only the base model didn’t have a paltry 8gb of ram, which for these days is just not enough imo.