M1 is still a fantastic machine, my M1 mac mini is my daily driver and besides the ram I still haven't found anything I can't do on it on my use case, Ipad OS barely scratches the surface in the hardware potential currently. My ipad is a 2018 11" pro one, I use it as a work tool daily, is my main machine for this purpose, and recently it's becoming increassingly more annoying to use it, I use it primarily for Clip Studio, but th 4gb of ram is not being enough nowadays, it constantly naggs about not enough memory and sometimes crash losing progress, the 64gb storage also is nearly not enough when each file can take up to 300mb and clip studio alone uses 2,5gb. also, the screen has a huge crack that divides the screen in half after my backback sudenly ripped the bottom, and the battery lasts only 5h of work at most, used to last 8h no problem.
I hope they announce soon as I lost the opportunity to purchase it on a travel for cheapper if they got announced last week, Depending on what they announce, if the changes are big enough, or if they change the base storage tier of the Air, I will be able to decide if I go for a last gen 256gb M1 air, a new (supposedly) 128gb M2 air, a 128gb 11" M2 pro, or the new M3 11"pro, or even the rumored 12"Air. and them there is also the rumored apple pencil 3.
