Just buy it.  I was skeptical of the move to ARM, but the M1 chip is excellent.  Memory management in the chip and in Big Sur really squeezes every ounce of performance out of the standard 8GB RAM.If you're looking for a great performing every day machine that can do web surfing, office, zoom and light workstation tasks like video editing and photoshop this is probably the best value out there right now.  Incredible!  Well done Apple.  First time I've been excited about their products in a long time.