My work laptop (belongs to employer) is a 16-inch MacBook Pro M3.
It is extremely powerful given it’s weight & size, and I have never even once thought “I wish the battery life was longer”.
We have a very big codebase, and sometimes I wish I had even more CPU horsepower for compilation & running Dialyzer.
I have never heard the fan, so they could probably have made it thinner and lighter.
If I was working on smaller codebases, I think the 15 inch MacBook air would make more sense.
My personal laptop is a ThinkPad T14 with a Ryzen processor. It can compile any of my side projects near instantly. I run Linux mint. I have also never heard the fan and the battery life seems like it can last about 6+ hours which is way more than I need for a casual-use laptop.
