The article and some of the comments seem to be missing the point. The new M1 chips are Apple's first foray into developing their own silicon for computers, the

The article and some of the comments seem to be missing the point. The new M1 chips are Apple's first foray into developing their own silicon for computers, these are not the laptops specialized users want. BUT the new Air can compile Rust in half the time as the 16" MBP, Tensorflow it many times faster, 1.5 hours of web browsing and YouTube depleted only 4% battery. And that's just less than a week of testing. This is the biggest proof yet that Apple's approach to hardware+software was always the right one for them. Now, I do disagree with the increasing control they exert, how they prevent you from upgrading directly or installing other OSes. I hope they start to care more about developers and tinkerers in the future. I've always loved Windows and Linux, and I've gone back to it after trying a MacBook, but I can't deny what they have achieved with the M1 has given me second though about using an MBP as my main computer in the future.