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This is the thing about Apple and why this sort of thing doesn't bother me. Overall, their hardware, at least their phones and notebooks, are relatively similarly priced to the competition with similar hardware. Then they charge buckets for all the accessories. But if you pay for those accessories, that's on you. It's not an Apple Tax, it's a Stupid Tax.
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.
If you want a usable device with 16gb ram and a 512gb SSD it's $1400 which is $300 (27% stupid tax) more than a comparable dell. Although I will admit the M1 chip in it will probably perform better at certain tasks.