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I also have a custom-built stationary running Arch - since 2011ish, still in service and in very good shape :)
Work laptop, given to me by the company, is an HP EliteBook (i7-7700U, 16GB RAM)
I've since moved on to HP Dev One. It's well-rounded for me, was easily upgraded to 64GB of ram, and came with Pop! OS out of the box. I've also used System76 machines in the past with success, but I'm rather attached to having a pointing stick.
My dayjob provides a Dell XPS 13 (factory-loaded with Ubuntu) which is an acceptable machine, but I don't travel with it much.
I always use GNU/Linux. Of late I've been sticking to LTS Ubuntu or Pop! OS releases. I'm a strange case though, because my desktop is LXDE, and all I ever really do is run a browser or two with a pile of terminals, so I'm not running heavy desktop apps like Slack, Discord, or LibreOffice.
Thinkpad X270 running 9front. Thinkpad T410i running Debian. Edit: Though I much much prefer to work on a desktop.
Personally I like the X200, X220, X230, ... series (as well as T400, T430, ...). One of the primary deciding factors is the quality of the keyboard.
P.S. What's it like to run 9front on a laptop? Is this a practical machine for getting the job done, or do you just want to learn about OS'es and experience the joy of Plan9? (I wanted to run Plan9 in the 1990's but was not yet open source at the time; plus computers were still expensive and finding a spare, compatible computer for a what would essentially be a hobby machine was out of the question.)
ThinkPad X250 and FreeBSD13.1-RELEASE with pkg's