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Good at what? What do you actually want to do with a laptop?
You sound like the feds
You sound like you'd rather do a bit than get advice about laptops
Yeah doing a bit about asking if MacBooks are good 
It depends on what you're using it for, which is why I asked. Assuming that you're doing a bit is the charitable interpretation of you responding to an innocuous question trying to help with fedjacketing.
It depends on your use case. I got my mom the cheapest M1 Air and she loves it more than any other laptop she’s ever had. It’s good for browsing the web, watching videos, making documents, Zoom etc. And the battery life is incredible. 8GB ram is more than enough to do all this and more at the same time (at least on a MacBook).
The more expensive Air and Pro models with more powerful M chips will obviously be better at more demanding tasks - processing, editing, coding etc.
And none will be good for games, unless you shell out $4k to get 40 fps on medium settings.
Gaming would break the Mac since it doesn’t have any fans
Pros have fans.
Thermals are actually fine, the fanless ones don't have enough GPU to overheat.
What mine (m1 pro, 16gb ram, has fans) is good at:
- Very low power usage and exceptionally long battery life
- Screen is above and beyond what a laptop needs
- generally fast and can manage cpu-heavy games and video transcoding
What it’s bad at
- ever being able to upgrade
- some functionality requires third-party apps or terminal knowledge
- not all programs have an Apple silicon version and need the translation layer
- virtualization is inconsistent and unpredictable
They’re cool devices. I’ve been a longtime laptop hater but I’m happy with mine. Yes you do need the 16gb ram upgrade that they will rip you off for. Get a pro model if you think you’ll need active cooling, but my fans rarely turn on.
They're pretty good. Buy refurbished if you can
I might get an M1 Pro but 1600 is so much 😭
At least in the US you can often get second-hand M2 Pro with 16gb for 1200 USD