You can also get it in a laptop form factor that feels like a MBP with a nicer keyboard if you get an HP Zbook G1A!
Huge fan of that thing, it's th e Linux MBP I've always wanted.
While the laptop option is nice, for an inference server you're probably going to want the desktop form factor as it has significantly more thermal overhead and thus better performance. In the desktop models most of the internal volume is a gigantic heatsink