Can I tell you a dirty secret? My M1 MacBook Air is probably the best gaming laptop I've ever owned. Oh, don't get me wrong, most things don't run on it and the most recent game it can reliably run is probably about half a decade old, but as someone who mostly just wants to play golden oldies—KotOR, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Planescape—this thing is a fanless dream with battery life that goes and goes and goes.
What I would never think of doing is playing something recent on it. Some kind of gleaming graphical showcase that can make my RTX 4080 sweat. Something like, oh, I dunno, Cyberpunk 2077, which is apparently coming to Mac "early next year."
