Hi! Im on my first year of Law School and badly need a laptop replacement for my 7 (almost 8) years old hp laptop. I checked the latest price listing for macbooks and the M1 base model is fairly cheap especially now that they already released the M3. Do you think that its still a good deal even tho its a 2020 model? Or do u have any more recommendations that is student friendly?
What will I use it for: Making case digests, school presentations, making documents, web browsing and casually watching youtube videos/movies.
Oh and also, I’m not from the US so refurbished models aren’t available here.
I have an m1 pro 16gb and i can do fairly heavy development work with ease. It’s still a great machine and could even be overkill for what you are doing. Make sure you don’t get the 13" which has the touchbar and worse keyboard. I mean it could be worse but it’s still regarded as inferior afaik. Honestly it sounds like you could even go with the m1/m2 air.