The next time you buy a laptop, and you don't want a Mac, it's likely you want to buy one with a snapdragon CPU. That's an ARM chip, meaning you get very good battery life (just like the M-series Apple chips). On Snapdragon though you can easily run Windows, and eventually Linux (Linux support is a few months out though).
Agreed, but I hope I don't need a new laptop for some time. The BEST options, depending on your very specific needs and expectation of lifecycle (do you buy for 2 years, or 5). Eliminate these until you get to the one you can accept (or ignore it entirely - a lot of personal preference goes into this, one size really does not fit all).
1. M3 Macbook Air. 2. Wait ~1 year for Windows-on-ARM to fully normalize 3. Acer or Asus (or maybe Lenovo) Snapdragon X 4. Surface Laptop Snapdragon X 5. Intel laptop 6. Snapdragon plus laptop