The Dell XPS 16 (2024) is excellent for use as a workstation. It's available with Intel Meteor Lake CPUs and NVIDIA discrete GPUs, so you can get a good amount of processing power to handle intensive tasks like video editing, programming, and 3D animation. You can also do color work, though you'll have to spend extra to get the nicer 4k+, 100% DCI P3 OLED display, as the base display option is an FHD+ IPS that only has full sRGB coverage. Its port selection is okay; you get three USB/Thunderbolt 4s, but it only has a MicroSD card reader instead of a full-size one, and there's no HDMI or USB-A port. It doesn't get hot or loud under load, and while there's some thermal throttling, it's relatively minimal.