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You’ll find it difficult to find any PC laptop with equivalent combo of build quality/features/performance to a MBP for less. The Apple machines are very well priced, and I’d say that nothing else comes close in terms of build quality/materials.
As your main barrier to a MBP seems to be price, have you considered an M1 based MacBook Air, or an official refurb M1 MacBook Pro 13”? These can be had for under a grand, and will deal with most tasks.
I was wondering if now was a time for me to switch from Apple entirely.