I saw a decent listing for a 16" 16gb m1 pro macbook the other day, and i was seriously considering spending those money.

I have a 16" m4 max from work (36gb) and is an incredible machine (build quality, incredible display, overall feel). I also have a private macbook neo which should be similar to M1 in terms of performance but it's limited to 8gb of memory.

The neo/M1 performances are sufficient for my needs (for private computing) and chances are the M1 pro actually performs better than my neo (if anything for the more abundant memory).

I might to back to the listing and try to haggle the price even lower, considering a new generation of macbook pros has just been announced.