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Only their phones are similarly priced and that's only if you look at the most expensive android phones
Base priced Macbook Air is $1099. That's pretty relative to a lot of the competition. You can definitely find better deals, but let's not pretend it's more expensive than everything else in its class.
Are we defining class by relative power and capabilities? Cause if so, yeah Apple is absolutely overpriced.
I can almost guarantee you a more powerful machine of similar size and weight exists for 750-900 bucks outside of the Apple ecosystem. You're paying for the shiny metal construction and the name.
not to mention thats assuming youre buying all new hardware.