Favorite line from a radio ad: "sure you could buy a hamburger for a dollar ... but then you'd have to eat it."
Get a M1 MacBook Air for $849.
Last time I bought two refurbished MBAs from Apple, they lasted 8 years with no complaints. At 30¢ & 48¢ per day, totally worth the "high" price.
If I needed a laptop I would buy that Dell 15.6” FHD immediately. I would install a storage HD or SSD. Being so Apple oriented you don’t know what the most annoying bugaboo is with Windows Intel/AMD machines. That 33% of the ones I see do not shut down properly all the time. Do not wake up properly all the time.....> Do you ever see this with Apple products?