The information revealed by Bloomberg today puts your whole post in the past.
- The next generation chip for the MacBook Pro is a 10 core chip with 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores. This means an entirely newly designed chip where 2 efficiency cores are now the same or better performance as 4 efficiency cores in the M1. Plus 8 performance cores, putting this thing easily in the 14k multicore range, or better if the performance cores get as much of a boost as the efficiency cores.
- The graphics options are said to be 16 and 32 core graphics. The memory options are said to go up to 64 GB. And if this is still unified memory, 32 core graphics with access to 64 GB of RAM will blow past your "mid-range desktop GPU's".
I just watched a video on this and I’m impressed. I suspect that a configuration of 8 performance cores, 32 GB, and 16 GPU cores is enough for me in a laptop.
I did not see details on a larger iMac though.