I'm gonna sound like an Apple shill but that is par for the course for my posts on TF over the past decade, so may as well continue the trend.
Ever since I got my M1 MB Air, other Intel laptops feel so shit. I have a pretty new and high spec work laptop. An Intel i7 HP Elitebook with 16GB RAM and SSD. It is crap. It's sat on my desk *doing nothing* other than running a gmail webpage and google chat and an RDP session, and I can hear the fan on it. And it's pretty warm to the touch. And it doesn't even feel very quick when I try and do anything on it. My M1 Air feels way faster, is completely silent and only slightly warm to the touch.
Though all those negative points of my work laptop were true of my old Intel MBP, to be honest.
/rant