I bought my first MacBook Pro last week after a lifetime of using Windows and I am deeply in love with it. Not because of Mac OS which doesn't really seem that much different from Windows except the menu bar always parks on the top of the screen and your status icons and clock are up there instead of down below in the taskbar.
No, I love how blindingly fast it is because M1 runs circles around Intel's laptop parts, I love the battery life which is measured in days not hours, I love the screen which has DCI-P3 gamut and a nice "in-between" 2560x1600 resolution between the common "coarse" 1080p and "overkill" 4K resolutions on Windows laptops, and I love how the fan never seems to kick on or the laptop really heat up even while actually using it unlike any Windows laptop where looking at it funny in Chrome causes the fan to start running and the laptop heating up enough to boil water and the battery life instantly melting.
I'm surprised by just how many apps I used daily on Windows which are available on Mac. This is clearly not the same Mac of yesteryear in terms of native apps, although I am still baffled as to how Mac users are somehow able to get by with pretty much only VLC as their video player. I keep thinking playing video back is important so what's the deal with this. Besides that, I was too lazy to actually find and get a Microsoft Office license for Mac so I've been tooling around with the included Mail and Pages apps and they seem pretty decent for bundled apps.
As far as first generation hardware goes, the current M1 MacBooks use the exact same chassis and look exactly the same as the Intel ones. The difference is the Apple Silicon and this first generation is amazing unless you're trying to use Adobe Premiere Pro or something and that will come down to Adobe maybe deciding they should release native ARM versions of Creative Suite apps someday.
