My plan is to get a min spec M1 air as a personal laptop and then get the real 14"/16" M2 version with touch, more cores and more RAM later on. As one apple employee told me, you never really want to get a v1 with apple anything if you can.

With the 'touchification' of big sur, it seems pretty likely apple is going to release some sort of convertible macbook or maybe something iPad style. Or maybe iPads can start running macos?

Work laptop will get upgraded to an M1 one way or another anyway.