Apple

Hi! Im on my first year of Law School and badly need a laptop replacement for my 7 (almost 8) years old hp laptop. I checked the latest price listing for macbooks and the M1 base model is fairly cheap especially now that they already released the M3. Do you think that its still a good deal even tho its a 2020 model? Or do u have any more recommendations that is student friendly?

What will I use it for: Making case digests, school presentations, making documents, web browsing and casually watching youtube videos/movies.

Oh and also, I'm not from the US so refurbished models aren't available here.