Disclaimer: Please be gentle as I haven’t bought a laptop myself for years and I have done 0 research recently. Also this is outside of US region and i’m considering to get brand new one.
I found what seems like a good deal on an Acer Aspire 3 AMD Ryzen™ 5 7520U, 16GB around $500. Not sure if it’s worth going for or just save a bit and go for the apple m1 macbook air 2020 which is around $770. My mind is telling me m1. What confusing me is the ram here, it’s 16GB with aspire 3 which i think is a good deal however I haven’t bought a laptop myself for years and I have done 0 research recently.
Use case: Daily use of a developer with running containers or Kubernetes clusters, few terminal windows and lots of browser windows 😎. Maybe running a linux vm.
Macbook more premium. The Ryzen 5 cpu is good. So, you are getting a decent budget laptop with nice speed from Acer, but I think the apple speakers and screen will be better for sure.
One nice Windows machine is HP Pavilion with Ryzen 7730u and 16gb ram at HP.com.