The M1 macbook air at $999 blows away windows laptops that cost twice as much. It’s available for $899 almost any day of the week on Amazon (or with a school di

The M1 macbook air at $999 blows away windows laptops that cost twice as much. It’s available for $899 almost any day of the week on Amazon (or with a school discount). The average laptop selling price is somewhere in the $700 range. That’s hardly a huge premium considering the delta in performance and user experience compared to low specced machines. I’d also say without hesitation that cheap Chromebooks are better than their cheap windows competitors. If you just need to do basic things, ChromeOS is much snappier on slow hardware while also being more secure. If you need to do more, you’ll benefit from a faster system at which point the M1 is an easy choice for the money.