Funny that, when my beefed up XPS 15 finally died, I went on eBay on got one of those Thinkpads dumped by corporations for like £120.
I put in the NVMe drive from the XPS and... it was working out of the box.
What is surprising that it feels much faster, fans don't make as much noise that despite weaker CPU and 4x less RAM.
I really like it.
I got an M1 Pro as well, but Thinkpad will be a nice backup machine.