The main thing that makes Macs overpriced is the lack of 15" MacBook Air, so to get a large screen you need to buy a CPU/GPU you don't need.

And the hardware is too good for the software longevity. A 10 year old Windows machine works fine if you have decent hardware (so, desktop, not laptop) but Apple EOLs and rots the software compatibility of your perfectly functional hardware after 7 years