I ordered the minimal config (8/256) right after the keynote thinking that it would just be a test machine for Apple Silicon development. In your case, if you got it and were unhappy with configuration for some reason, you could return it (I believe November would be in Apple’s extended Christmas return policy period) and get a different model. Spending $200 for a month earlier delivery is rather silly (I am not desperate for a new machine, just curious), but ultimately I am getting a better-speced machine and that could help resale value down the road. The stock machine with 30-core would be delivered Nov 10ish, so I opted for that. But the delivery on that model wasn’t until mid-December. That would have been absolutely fine for my needs. I considered the 24-core GPU model, saving me $200. I kinda did the opposite of what you did.
So you’d have to, say, convert some video to another format in Handbrake while at the same time doing a few other major tasks, and watch the CPU usage bars skyrocket.) (Activity Monitor CPU activity can really only show you how much processor you’re using if you’re in the middle of a huge task. I’d say a regular M1 would be fine for you – though the new MBPs have other upgrades (bigger screens, more ports, etc) that also make them valuable. If you were doing any of that, you wouldn’t be on a 8-year-old dual core machine. The only the thing extra cores give you is doing more computing at once – which basically means either doing stuff in 10 apps at the same time, or running a complex app that can use the extra cores (like 3D rendering, Photoshop, music creation, video editing, etc.). I would say you’d be just fine, specially since you said you did 32GB memory (which you’d notice way before the 2 extra CPU cores). So doesn’t it seem like going from my late 2013 2.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 to the M1 Pro 8 core CPU is going to be just fine?
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