The reality is that the M1 beats pretty much all Intel-based laptops when it comes to getting the sweet spot on performance, battery life and silent operation.

Yes it's costly, restrictive, the hardware still has some flaws and you can't replace parts but most Apple users, myself included, are happily paying the price.

I have an M1 Macbook Pro for a few months now and it's blazingly fast, the battery lasts for 15-20 hours and I've only heard the fan for a few minutes so far while stressing it with heavy compilation. Under normal circumstances it's entirely silent. I wouldn't trade it for anything else at this point.

You're not "happily paying the price". That assumes you've had to go through the genious bar destroying your monitor, or losing all your data, or having to buy a whole new macbook because a $1 component died and Apple prevents it from being replaced.

Again, it's just advocating against yourself. Nobody cares until it happens to them, and then they wonder how things have gotten this bad.

It's unfortunate Dell laptops are limited by Software. Their hardware is pretty good otherwise. And linux runs flawlessly for the most part.