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It's $999 but it has half the RAM and a quarter of the storage.

If you want to match those specs it jumps up to $1,649 which is $550 more than the HP.

Is the Mac better though? Of course it is, but not everyone needs the latest and greatest and not everyone needs to pay $550 more for it.

The storage on Macs seems a bit mean for the price but story with RAM is more interesting.

From the benchmarks I’ve seen the M1 chips swap so fast that the penalty for less RAM is much less that I would expect on an Intel based laptop.

I’m pretty sure that if I was to move back to a mac right now I’d get 16Gb over 32Gb because there just isn’t much advantage to doubling the RAM.

I mean there’s a bit but to honest I don’t think I’d notice day to day.