I bought a 300 euro ThinkPad that's going on 9 years now. It was my only computer for the entire time until about a week ago, when I bought another 300 euro ThinkPad. I also didn't have a smartphone, only a basic dumbphone for a large portion of that time.

So for me, yes, MacBook Airs, like the lovely M1 I'm writing this on (I love my job!) are luxury goods.

Just because Ferraris cost half a million doesn't mean a 50k BMW isn't luxury.

If we're doing car metaphors, you're calling sub 20k cars luxuries.

> $1000 for a laptop that will last 10 years

That's for the 8GB model (which is already too low unless you use your Mac for the same use cases as you would use an iPad), 16GB is $200 extra.