[briffle]

My Asus zenbook 14 is around that price, has a 1TB disk, and 16GB of ram. I'm sure the processor on the M3 is faster, and probably a fair amount more battery out of it, but now I'm comparing a $1000 zenbook to a $1700 13' macbook once I add disk and memory, without the upgraded cpu.

[Solvency]

And it feels like a cheap piece of flexible creaky plastic.

[tryptophan]

I bought one and it actually feels very well put together. Quiet, pretty 2.8k oled screen, and long battery which is all I really care about.

[akvadrako]

They are all metal.

[Macha]

But will probably outlive your MBP keyboard.