Well I got tired of waiting until Fall and ordered an M1 MacBook Air in space gray with 8 + 8 cores, 16GB of RAM, and a 1 TB SSD. Should arrive about mid-week. Hopefully it will last as long as my 2014 MacBook Pro 15” has. My 2012 mini is still going strong too. I use it to control and display my security cams.
ETA: As old as my current Macs are, an Etch-N-Sketch would have seemed like an upgrade, so this should blow my socks off!