I heard the hype but was hesitant to get the laptop, so I opted for the mini to use with my home setup.  Wow.  I installed MS Office (M1 optimized) in a little over ONE minute.  ONE MINUTE!  Safari and optimized apps are virtually instantaneous.  I gave it an hours long run through some late game CIV6 and it was as good as any solid upmarket PC, but was using no discernible fan boost and was putting out virtually no heat either.  Once the various apps are optimized for M1 I think this machine is going to mean BIG trouble for Intel in the future.  There are a few finicky bits with multiple displays and Bluetooth but Apple’s already working on that so if you can handle that for a couple weeks you’ll love it.  And if this was the base model Mini I can’t imagine what we will see in a year or two.