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My opinion: M1 gives you (speaking about laptops here): thin and light, very powerful device that runs very cool, a combo that you don't get anywhere else for less money. Frankly it's hard to get close for ANY money. You also get great screen, trackpad, speakers. HW is the reason to get Mac nowadays IMO.

That's an American thing. We don't overpay for computers in Europe because we don't earn 100000+ a year.

M1s are quite affordable, quality laptops from other suppliers are not much cheaper if at all. And the M1 has no match currently.

I never went Mac until getting an M1, albeit I did it on the laptop side. Couldn't care less it came with macOS, itd be really awesome if it didnt have to but I'm also used to paying for Windows any times I havent needed it so it wasnt a new experience. It's really just that the hardware is both extremely capable and extremely quiet. Now I can run native Linux on it.