Yea if you can find one for $500 new on sale.

Maybe a slightly used one as well.

But I think these are very tempting for brand new.

Walmart sells a brand new M1 Air for ~$650 and refurbished for ~$500

doesn't need to be new, but maybe the m1s wont last another 4 years for college so maybe it makes sense...

in the m5 announcement people were saying they still have no plans to upgrade from their daily driver m1s (im in this boat too).