How should I spec out a new 16 inch MacBook Pro?

It's finally here, much to the relief of many....maybe a laptop worthy of its high asking price.

It seems like keyboard and thermal design issues may have finally been addressed. These were the deal killers for me before, which is why I've stuck with my 2013 model the last couple of years.

The Touch Bar, lack of MagSafe, and lack of more useful ports are irritating, but not deal breakers.

I wanted to ask peoples' advice on how I should spec out a new 16 inch MBP.

The thing, fully spec'd, could probably dim a small midwestern town, but that amount of hardware is way overkill for most of us.

Needless to say, I will wait until I see some good, systematic reviews of the new unit's thermal efficiency and keyboard function before I plunk down a few thousand dollars.

I've been keeping all the available windows of Activity Monitor open while using my late 2013 MBP, under various app combinations and work loads, and have noticed the following....

The CPU graph responds very quickly to changes in workload, as one would expect. It never seems to max out (consistently reach the top of the graph....if that is even a meaningful scale, rather than just an arbitrarily sized background space....there's no labelled Y axis, after all), but it does react, the machine gets hot, the fans spin, etc. (I don't know what the red bottom part of the graph means vs the green top part of the graph, which I probably should look into).

The "GPU history" also responds quickly to applicable loads, whether it be the integrated Iris chip, or the NVIDIA for graphics intensive apps.

The Memory Pressure graph doesn't rise much, and is never anything but green, regardless of how much I throw at the computer. (I have 16GB RAM.)

In general, my philosophy when buying new Apple computers has always been buy more than you need to future-proof the thing so that you can at least get 5 years of solid service out of it, before newer software begins to show the thing's age.

So, I was thinking of something like the following....

• max out the CPU (the higher choice of the two 8-core options)
• max out the video chip (I think I recall there being two choices)
• RAM.....my current experience suggests 16GB is actually enough for me, but, consistent with my personal shopping history, I'd probably opt for 32 (64 is also an option, but seems wayyyyy overkill to me)
• 1 TB SSD (maybe 2 if the incremental cost isn't much....can't remember now)

Any thoughts from our more technically minded readers about whether this sounds like a reasonable plan?

Thank you!