I've been an Apple user for over 35 years, and I was pretty excited to make the M1 migration now that many apps have been updated for Apple Silicon. I expected to be blown away, and while this is an excellent Apple laptop, and the battery life does live up to the hype, I overall I found it disappointing compared to the reviews. Three things:1. Sure, it may fly if you're doing really CPU heavy things, but for things like "heavy" productivity, I found it no better than my Intel 16". In fact....2. This could be related to all the stories I read saying, "8GB on Apple Silicon is like 16GB on Intel."  Yeah, don't believe those. Again, this may be true for tasks that are well suited for ARM, but heavy productivity work is no better. I keep a decent but not insane amount of Safari tabs open at any time, and that plus having much of anything else open kept the memory pressure graph constantly in the yellow, if not red. And that may or may not be related to the biggest problem which is....3. I had significant problems using my LG 5K display which has worked like a champ with my 16". Sometimes it would take up to 4 minutes before things "settled down" and I was actually able to use the computer again. That was a dealbreaker.Would 2 and 3 have been better with more memory, or are these M1 growing pains, or something else? I don't know. I'll probably give the 16" a try with 16GB whenever it comes out. For now, this 13" was just too underpowered for my fairly average professional needs.I realize that reviews below 5 stars on this are rare, which I find puzzling for the reasons above. Hope this is helpful to anyone who might be wondering about the downsides.