Until recently I thought my 2015 MacBook Pro was "fast enough", and I think arguably it still is for casual usage. But I've just gotten one of the new 2022 MacBook Pro's, and for work usage it's making an absolutely huge difference. Things that I had to wait for are now instant, my editor's language support is much more responsive, and my computer now no longer lags when video calling and screen sharing.

The slowest tasks I had before were probably live-reloading a React app, which has gone from "takes a few seconds" to "pretty much instant". And compiling a fresh build of an iOS app, which has gone from ~20mins and the my computer lagging slightly while doing other tasks to ~3mins and it performs other tasks perfectly fine while it does it.

It is almost 10x faster (2x faster in single core, 4.5x more cores) so perhaps it shouldn't have been surprising.