I don't know about a good deal. That seems to be $200-300 higher than most similarly spec'd machines on the market. While the CPU base clock isn't great on the

I don't know about a good deal. That seems to be $200-300 higher than most similarly spec'd machines on the market. While the CPU base clock isn't great on the LG Gram (https://www.lg.com/us/laptops/lg-14z90n-u.aas7u1-ultra-slim-laptop https://www.lg.com/us/laptops/lg-14z90n-u.aas7u1-ultra-slim-...), it's $200 cheaper, nearly a pound lighter, and gets a full work day more of battery. And it still has a full USB-A port, Thunderbolt, and full HDMI. I also imagine that the thermals are probably better too. I really can't get over how important it is that Apple's entire line of laptops cannot readily plug into a standard monitor without some sort of adapter. USB-C adapters are terrible. Thunderbolt adapters are insanely expensive. There's still an argument to be made for "dumb" display protocols/connectors. My girlfriend is on a 2018 15" MBP for work and we went through multiple USB-C adapters to try to get something to work with a 1440p 144hz display or a 32" 4k 60hz display. We ended up finding one that worked with the 4k display, but by default only ran at 30hz. We had to option-click the "scaled" setting in preferences to force it to display at 60hz. For a company built around the "it just works" model, the current state of trying to just get up and running on standard equipment is painful at best.