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The cheapest MacBook Air is $1000, and it's more like $1500+ if you want a reasonable amount of RAM and storage. There are similarly expensive Windows laptops available that are fanless.

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Mind linking some (genuinely curious, would like to checkout potential Linux machine for the next upgrade)

Count me in

Surface laptop.

Not even the arm version of surface laptop is fanless.

The Huawei Mate book X.

I think there's a fanless Asus ZenBook too, or the Surface Pro X.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-MateBook-X-in-review-Ul...

I spent $1700 or so on my M1 Air not too long after they were released. A ThinkPad X1 Carbon would have cost me more money for massively worse performance. Quality costs more.

The difference is that a 4800U would be looking pretty bad vs a HX370 while the M1 still looks decent 4 years later (especially when that HX370 is unplugged).

>There are similarly expensive Windows laptops available that are fanless.

Such as?

Wait until Lunar Lake comes out.

Robo & Kala 2 in 1. Thinkpad x13s Snapdragon which can still be found in a few places.

For $1200 you can easily pick up a decent refurb MBP - these are apple refurbs for example. OOS but an example of what you can find if you look around a bit.

https://sellout.woot.com/offers/apple-14-macbook-pro-with-10...

There’s very little reason to chase the exact latest model when even a 2020/2021 M1 family is still great.

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