I haven't seen an M1Max yet.. but I've had a ton of 15", 17", and 16" MBP models over the last 10 years at work. All have generally been maxed out i7 models u

I haven't seen an M1Max yet.. but I've had a ton of 15", 17", and 16" MBP models over the last 10 years at work. All have generally been maxed out i7 models up to the latest one which is an i9 I got about 3-4 months ago right before the ARM ones came out. I'm totally on board with the narrative that the MacBook Pro has been going downhill for a long time and going to ARM is the ray of hope. At least in the case of my i9 16" they finally fixed the keyboard but it's a ridiculous space heater and it's only about 2x as fast as the 2018 i7 it replaced on a lot of tasks, and that's probably only because I was RAM limited on the 2018 one and am not on the 2021 one. The fan drives me bonkers as it pretty much runs full blast all day while I'm working. Lots of us on our team have seen the battery draining while it's plugged into the wall. Some of these benchmark games miss the point, the user experience for a "mobile workstation" user has just been going downhill for a long time and these new machines are finally starting to turn that around. I've had as 13" M1 MBP since launch last year FWIW and have never heard the fan come on, other than the fact it has a Touch Bar it's just about perfect for a personal machine. It feels much faster than the i9 for most real world tasks and the battery life resembles a kindle more than a laptop.