It’s great to have such powerful machines on the pipeline, but I don’t see myself getting an iMac, a high end 16” MacBook Pro or a mac pro. So my interest remains focused on the next M2 MacBook Air, not on the M1X upcoming machines.
After having purchased an M1 MacBook Air, even 13” seem a bit bigger than I remembered (I got used to the 11” of my iPad Pro) and I wouldn’t trade the function keys row for a more powerful (and hot, and less power efficient) M1X MacBook Pro. Maybe a new 12” MacBook with an M1 would make me think again about my purchase, that’s the only thing I would consider.
If this rumor is true and the M1 is certainly the baseline and the rest of the family is much, much more powerful, the Intel macs will become “obsolete” faster than I thought. Yes, they will still have support from Apple for 5 years at least, but in comparison they will be seen as slow, burning machines.