I have an M1 Macbook air and use an M1 Pro MacBook Pro for work. For everyday usage I can’t tell a difference in performance. I don’t use them for any video editing or encoding so can’t comment on that. There has been a decrease in performance after upgrading to Sonoma though
The air has genuinely impressed me. The amount of performance you get from a passively cooled, low power device is crazy
I’ve got a few devices running and it’s pretty cool. Don’t really have a use case for it though!