I get what you're saying, I'm also looking forward for the even higher performing machines with 12 or 16 core cpus (8 or 12 performance cores + the 4 efficiency

I get what you're saying, I'm also looking forward for the even higher performing machines with 12 or 16 core cpus (8 or 12 performance cores + the 4 efficiency cores?), 32gb ram option, 4 thunderbolt lanes, and more powerful gpus. Wondering exactly how far apple can push it, if this is what they can do in essentially a ~20TDP design. On the other hand it's quite funny that the title of this article is "16-inch MBP with i9 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real world Rust compile" and the comments are still saying "yeah but this is entry level not pro". Apparently Pros are more concerned about slotting into the right market segment than getting their work done quickly :)