I will say the cost of MacBooks has fallen through the floor with the new Apple Silicon. My M1 MacBook Air was $1,100 for 16/1TB. I'm not sure how much good Windows laptops go for these days.
Last time I bought laptops was for my kids at beginning of pandemic. They used them for school and stuff for the past 3 years. Both costed $500 each and they still use them to this day. Though I went for a Ryzen 7 instead of Intel, so maybe that's why I got that good of a deal.
Are you serious?
It's precisely 1908,85 euros right now for an M1 Macbook Air with 16G ram 1TB storage, and I'm in northern Europe. That's over 2k usd.
A baseline M2 Macbook Air is 1515 euros for 8GB ram 256GB storage. Bumping that to 16g ram and 1TB storage is 2210 euros.
NOT cheap.