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They offered me a 14 or 16" MacBook Pro now, which is an M1 CPU.
I could wait a few weeks/months to see if Apple will update the MacBook Pro to an M2 chip. But then I still have to wait until our IT runs out of M1 machines, which they still have in stock. They usually keep around 20-40 new machines in stock at all times. I expect that may take a few weeks to run though so perhaps I won't see an M2 in our stock at work until 2023.
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What do you use the machine for? Do you spend much time waiting for tasks to complete? Then you might consider waiting. Otherwise you might as well grab the M1.
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at this point I'd probably wait, unless you need a machine today. If they follow the general pattern of the past several years, I expect the Mac event for the fall sometime in October, new machines shipping in November.
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most of my real work is done on company servers servers or in the cloud (AWS, Github, etc).
I rarely wait for tasks to complete. The machine is just a a terminal, but I also use it for word processing, email, multimedia consumption, etc. I do not use photoshop nor do I encode any movies.
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Then it hardly matters. Sounds like your current machine is plenty fast.
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I'm due for a refresh in a month or two. I'm regularly reevaluating but I'm optimistic that I'll get a 16" M2 series MacBook Pro. But I spend a lot of time watching javascript compile.
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If you need to move it around, get the 14. If it’s a desktop laptop, get the 16. Unlikely to see much gain in the M2.
