I paid that much for a spec'd out frame.work at the start of the year. Just ordered an M2 with 24G for $2k last night. I'm hoping the mac will be faster and quieter. It doesn't take much for my frame.work fan to start, watching one video can be enough. What really got me was the minor component fittings, they don't really. The plugin modules and camera/mic physical buttons are so difficult to move / swap. Then the right angle power cable frayed... I fully expect the mac to be much higher quality. That is part of the premium. We will see if the 25G of mem is enough. I have some workflows that will definitely reach beyond that limit, curious to see what happens
My $150 used Thinkpad has a high quality build, 16gb of ram, and can play a YouTube video while talking to people on the webcam. It has an 8th Intel cpu, which is about the same speed as a 10th Gen Intel CPU. The M2 is about double the speed in single core and multi core, but that isn't required for most simple tasks.
I'm planning to do dev work while in the Immersed app