I ordered a 16 inch MBP. Should be here mid-November. I have been using a 15 inch MBP from 2016. The new 16 inch MBP is only about a 1/4 inch wider and a 1/4 deeper, so seemed similar to what I have. I use it for photo editing while traveling and when at our cabin in the summer. So the bigger screen is nice to have. I’ve managed to take it many places, using it in mountain huts and on boats and taking it on planes from large jets to float planes. When at home, I generally use a 27” 2019 iMac.
Interested to see if the new M1 chips are faster — certainly should be compared to the 2016 MBP. The 2016 MBP has seemed a bit slow lately with Topaz DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI.
Expect the new MBP might be faster than my 2019 iMac too.
I have a 13" M1 and, as of 3 days ago, my wife has a 16" M1Pro. I use my 13" mainly hooked up to a 27" monitor. My wife uses her laptop as a laptop so the 13" felt small to her.
Compared to my late 2013 iMac, these things are screamers.
Compared to my wife's 2015 MacBook Pro which was pretty highly optioned with bigger GPU, 16gb Ram, SSD, etc, the M1 / M1Pro is faster but for real world, it's faster and noticeably faster but it isn't something that is going to change your life in day-to-day tasks.
I do find rendering video a whole lot faster with the M1 / M1Pro.
The screen on the new 16" is a thing of beauty. It is simply a beautiful screen.
the keyboard on both is really nice as are the track pads.
Internal SSD performance is blazing.
I have Topaz on my M1 and, honestly, it runs well bt I don't see a whole lot o improvement over either of our Intel models. I'm pretty sure DeNoise and Sharpen (maybe others) are running under Rosetta (meaning they are Intel compiled not necessarily optimized for the M1 chipset).
Overall, I am happy with the computers. I think they are well worth the investment and are far more "future-ready" in the Apple environment.
Hope this helps.
Jeff