I pulled the plug on a 14" Thinkpad X1 Carbon, on one of those frequent Lenovo "phony sales", that happened to be today, for that particular model.  Finally a 16:10 display that the Good Apple has sported for eons, but not in the useless HiDPI (without getting into a whole other discussion, I would have settled for, or even preferred 1680 x 1050 on a 14" screen in order to avoid the blurriness of "HiDPI-approximation" through Citrix.  Even at WUXGA, which the X1 Carbon has, I think some blurriness over Citrix can't be avoided).  

And "verily", I tell ya, if this "Parallels Desktop for Mac" is more of an officially supported beast by the Bad Apple (aka Redmond), and more generic, I'd be inclined to surrender myself to this malar bliss.

I also briefly toyed with the idea of something with Xeon and ECC.  My genuinely entrepreneuring cousin who runs a professional medical animation company talked some sense into me at the dinner table that they are not even using Quadro for rendering, by and large.  Just a bunch of RTX 3080s (incidentally, the only way he could lay hands on the 3080s was through buying a whole pile of Dell Alienware desktops that he doesn't need).

So no Xeon for this chump (was going to make me feel like a "premium geek").  On the upside got to keep a kidney.

Carry on good Mac folks. I apologize for the slight side-track, and long live Cupertino!