Oh, absolutely for what you describe newer chips are going to make a huge difference. The system I'm describing is used by my wife for Steam games, remote desk

Oh, absolutely for what you describe newer chips are going to make a huge difference. The system I'm describing is used by my wife for Steam games, remote desktop, media consumption etc. My work laptop is an M1 Max and personal laptop an ancient i5 Macbook. I had it upstairs recently and thought I'd do a little coding but gave up after a single `brew install whatever` was still going after 20 minutes and I lost my motivation...