@volpeon gosh I feel this so badly, my laptop at my previous job was a Latitude with a shit-era Core i7 (i7-8850H) which the laptop's shitty cooling system couldn't keep from throttling hard. while management got shiny 12th gen laptops.
still on a pretty old laptop for my new job, but that old laptop is an M1 Max with 1TB of storage and 32GB of RAM. I'll manage :)
(i'd rather use linux but macOS is certified good enough. much better than the windows i had to deal with last job)