[zgiber]

I had bad luck with the top spec 13" DELL XPS (2021) - Fan was loud, and audio jack randomly failed to detect headphones. Webcam was mediocre, audio quality was really really poor. It was ok for a machine that was only used for coding, but wasn't great for remote work / conferencing. Replaced with the M1 equipped 13" macbook which was about £400 cheaper (although also lower spec) and I'm very happy since. Despite the lower spec it does almost everything much faster. The only nuisance I had was a few Terraform providers not being released for ARM, and the occasional Docker woes with a few obscure images. The Macbook's overall quality and versatility beats the XPS by a good margin for my purposes.