I have three Apple laptops here: one from 2012, one from 2016 and one from 2021. The 2012 works better than the 2016 one, and I am not happy with the 2021 one at all (it heats a lot, is noisy, the battery dies fast, etc.). As you can see, I have some points of comparisons...
However, I have not tested the M1 chip ones, that are the newest ones.