[James Malloch]

Also agree with everyone that Mac is by far the best option at the price point. I've heard all the positive hype about the M1 chips and from my experience owning a 2022 Macbook Air they have lived up to it. Very comfortable editing videos while simultaneously using Google suite or internet browsing. It's not my first Mac laptop, they've all been robust and held processing power for a long time. Once you get used to hotkeys and the general architecture of the OS you'll find you can be more efficient.

Refurbished direct from Apple is the best option imo. They have several M2 options for under 1k currently. https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/refurbished/mac

Check out Currys, too. Their eBay store has various grades of refurb with pretty hefty discounts.

I got an M3 air recently which was a grade B refurb. It was 7 months old, only had one charge cycle, and was absolutely spotless. The box was the only thing which wasn't pristine. I got about 35% off RRP.

It was too old to add on apple care, but you still get 1yr warranty with Currys.

[Lopez]

My 2 cents. I say the same every time the argument "i've had a £400 lenovo, replaced it with a £2000 mac, and the mac is just so much better" pops around, so here it goes.

If you are considering spending a grand on a used laptop, you get much more computer if you get a windows based one.

I'm writing this with a £500 used laptop that blows most macs out of the water in every single way except maybe looking cool at starbucks (sorry  ) This laptop was around the 2k mark when new, and besides maybe playing the latest games at the highest settings (which i don't do) it does everything else flawlessly.

At times i'm doing video editing, 3d design/rendering, and photoshop all at the same time and i don't even bother closing one piece of software to open another.

The one drawback is, it runs windows, but only recently i had enough of it and switched to Linux which i was reluctant to do, and found it to be a really good decision and less hustle than i thought it would have been. Definitely recommended.

I run it as dual boot so i can boot to windows when i want to, mainly if i have to use photoshop as it runs like shit in linux. Best of both worlds really