Which Laptop should I buy?

I am going to be a college student this fall and need to buy a new laptop for the same. I have narrowed down my search to 2 laptops : Dell XPS and Macbook Air M2. I want to work in consulting or finance and I have heard that it's better to have a windows laptop given the compatability of excel and so on and so forth. All of my previous laptops have also been windows so it seems to be the better fit. However, Macbook Air M2 seems like the better laptop for college so I am not sure which laptop I should get. Which one should I get or are there any other suggestions? An outside option I was thinking of was the Lenovo Thinkpad.