> I am concerned about it being fanless and, thus, probably going easy to throttle. I recently made the switch from a laptop with a modern Intel chip to an M1

> I am concerned about it being fanless and, thus, probably going easy to throttle. I recently made the switch from a laptop with a modern Intel chip to an M1 and can tell you the difference is night and day. It can compile LLVM in half the time and you won’t even notice that the laptop is busy. As alternative, from a review I read that new AMD chips are also pretty steady. Also no throttling in laptops. My theory is that Intel has optimized for short benchmarks at all costs.