I have been playing with windows notebooks for 20 years and I switched recently to a Mac. I don’t agree with you. On Windows you have to keep control on drivers and latency. Sometimes it is impossible to have good audio performance.
With new processors this can be very frustrating.
With Mac you pay a lot but you connect your board and audio works perfectly.
Why? Simple. Audio routines inside operating system are intrinsic to Mac OS. In Windows you must install a driver from audio board manufacturer. Sometimes this driver collides with other drivers. And sometimes this is extremely hard to be solved.
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How about a Mac MINI, even a used one? If you are still thinking of getting a Windows machine, I suggest that you look into a mini PC. My Surface Pro that I had used as a desktop PC finally died on me. It served as my GP test machine also. It’s a good machine, but it gets pretty expensive with more RAM and storage. Also, it has an issue with the battery. Since I have to use a Windows machine (I also run GP on my Macbook Pro) for some Windows only music applications, I am thinking of getting a Windows mini PC. I looked at the Minisforum HX90 barebone; For around $1,200 USD, I can have a 64gb ram, 4TB storage, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. I looked at my “needs” as others mentioned here on this thread. I still have my Lenovo touchscreen laptop 16gb RAM 2TB ssd that runs my plugins well plus an MB PRO, and I thought I would wait for the next gen CPU either Intel or AMD. So for now, I purchased a light desktop duty mini PC Windows 11 - 16gb ram, 1TB ssd for $369 that I will take delivery in April.
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That’s just ~322 euro - a superb balance of specs/cost.