Okay I'm a bit lost by the current laptop market between the heaps of bullshit companies are putting us through.
What I need is something decently powerful with the great battery life you find in ARM-based CPUs like Snapdragon and Apple Silicon chips.
I want the lightweight durable shit like Macbook Air you know, something I can realistically use everywhere.
I'm open to both Windows and MacOS because both are cringe, unfortunately I can't have Linux on it for reasons. (Don't worry I have it on my desktop). But I still can't decide whose the lesser evil, especially since all ARM Windows are boasting AI bullshit and I hate it I'm never gonna use that shit EVER anyway and I'm afraid I'm just paying a premium for their marketing bullshit.
Obviously Lenovo and Qualcomm are eyeing me for 
reasons but Asus Zenbooks are looking kinda cool
But ffs Snapdragon X CPUs come in three tiers and for some reason it's hard to find the highest end (called "Elite") where I live (Europe) and I have no idea if I really need one for music production (Reaper) and coding (Godot Engine)
It's so fucking complicated 
Thanks in advance for you precious help
If you want good performance in an arm laptop then honestly Apple is the only way to go. If you want cheap the M1 MacBook Air goes for less than half its original price and still kicks ass. But 8 gigs in the base model is kinda lame.
But Windows arm devices are… bad? This is Microsoft’s 3rd attempt at making windows on arm and it’s been a dumpster fire. Better than the last two attempts, but Qualcomm being dicks isnt helping. Maybe it’s improved in the last few months, but the driver situation is awful. And I don’t mean 3rd party drivers, I mean Qualcomm’s own GPU drivers are nightmares and buggy as hell. Unironically windows in a VM on a Mac is a far superior option to bare metal on an arm PC.
I went for it thanks for your help!