What laptop should I actually get for my final year of CS that wont turn into a space heater the second I open Docker? Im seriously losing my mind with my current rig, which is a four year old machine that sounds like a jet engine taking off every time I try to run a local Kubernetes cluster or just compile a medium sized project in C++. I thought I knew what I was doing, right? I have been coding since high school and usually, I just keep refreshing my hardware, but everything I pick up lately feels like a compromise. I have like 1500 to 2000 bucks to spend tops, and I really need something that can handle heavy virtualization and maybe some occasional local LLM testing without melting my desk. I am based in Seattle and need to get this sorted before the next semester kicks off in a few weeks. Should I just bite the bullet and go for a maxed out MacBook Pro or is the whole ARM transition still gonna haunt me with weird dependency issues when I least expect it? Or are there actual Windows laptops that dont feel like plastic toys? I looked at the new XPS models but the thermal throttling reviews are just terrifying. I am honestly just tired of debugging why my IDE is lagging behind my typing speed. Is there anything reliable, or am I just chasing a unicorn here? Its getting pretty frustrating when I just want to commit my code instead of troubleshooting my own environment for the fifth time this month...