General view seems to be...
...neat products, but don't buy them. Wait for the second wave.
Also, stay away if you're doing content creation - several key applications (most notably Photoshop) are not yet ported to the new processor.
Poor old Intel, eh? Can't catch a break. Stuck on 14nm, just had their lunch eaten by AMD (who are in full-on HULK SMASH mode right now, with Zen 3 destroying Core across the board at all price points on pretty much all metrics - power consumption, thermal, price/performance, outright performance - and RDNA2 set to give NVidia serious sleepless nights), and now Apple are all "see ya, it's been emotional".
Also, stay away if you're doing content creation - several key applications (most notably Photoshop) are not yet ported to the new processor.
Poor old Intel, eh? Can't catch a break. Stuck on 14nm, just had their lunch eaten by AMD (who are in full-on HULK SMASH mode right now, with Zen 3 destroying Core across the board at all price points on pretty much all metrics - power consumption, thermal, price/performance, outright performance - and RDNA2 set to give NVidia serious sleepless nights), and now Apple are all "see ya, it's been emotional".
