I've been using M1 since it came out. Loved it. Fast, snappy, smooth. Prior to that, I had a Dell XPS that ran loud and always felt laggy to use. I was going t

I've been using M1 since it came out. Loved it. Fast, snappy, smooth. Prior to that, I had a Dell XPS that ran loud and always felt laggy to use. I was going to upgrade to M2, but $2k+ for an essentially base laptop. Nah. I grabbed a new Zenbook 14 OLED w/current gen i7. Metal chassis, nice keyboard, nice trackpad. Nice 120Hz screen. Solid construction. Windows 11 which I have gotten used to. It feels pretty well polished in terms of hardware and OS. Feels snappy. i7 is a wonderful, fast CPU. While it isn't an M2 Mac, an M2 Mac is no longer wildly better than a good Windows laptop. The $1300 difference for the same performance is a strong selling point for the Zenbook which is 96% as good as an M2.