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
Your only option if you don’t intend to use a very peculiar and limited set of software on it or to write your own from the most terry Davis scratch imaginable is a macbook air or pro.
The m1 air is the cheap option, but for just 3-4 times more than the secondhand price of an m1 air you can get this years m4 air with a bunch of cores and ram. Don’t buy upgrades to the ssd on anything unless you know in specific articulable terms why you need it. Usbc/lightning are plenty fast.
All you will likely need is a base model with 16gb of ram.
What’s your budget and I can actually make a recommendation instead of just broad generalizations?
Well turns out, the store I went to had a massive deal for M2 16GB RAM macbook air so I went for it and I must say that's a pretty little thing so thanks for confirming my intuition