Likewise - so long as they don't ditch the headphone jack on this as well.

This, but I also hope they understand that most studio headphones have cable attached on the left side and come back to pre-touchbar era jack placement. With new, miniaturised components there should be enough internal space on left side.

I feel the same way. Very interested, but not going to go in for first gen.

This is the 12th generation Apple Silicon processor design.

A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11, A12, A13, A14, M1

I think this is 11th generation, where the A14 and M1 are the same generation. I expect we will see a few other chips from this generation, perhaps a A14X for iPad Pros and a M1X for bigger laptops and iMacs.

The issue is with macos running on apple silicon. There was a thread today somewhere with docker mentioning that they are still working on support for example.

First generation of MacOS on Apple Silicon?

Sure, it's all Darwin, but userspace matters a lot - you can do lots of things on MacOS that you can't do on iOS (JIT, arbitrary web engines, assorted emulators, pop a root shell and load arbitrary kernel modules)

And that helps i.e. Docker how?

iOS XNU is compiled with different features than macOS XNU.

They are mostly the same.

Sure, but there are concerns beyond the chip itself.

I'm absolutely not worried about the silicon.

I am worried about the other hardware and MacOSX being total POS right now.