Would you be surprised if I told you that $600 is slightly under 11 days of the average rent [0]?

0 - https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/

Is that more rents are insane though, british perspective but 600 ~ £450, £450 is still around a third of an average rent, but I'd consider a budget laptop those in the £2-350 range. For the average user £400+ (so $500+) is decidely midrange purely on the virtue that its the middle of the range for general use laptops (being £150-1000 really, anything more than that and you're entering decent gaming/workstation specs).