[FirmwareBurner]

That Macbook Air is 1200 Euros where I live which is way above the price of the most sold Windows laptops according to the public sales data of big retailers here, which seem top hover around the 700-800 Euro pricing.

So no, it isn't cheaper when you look at what people actually buy. It's only cheaper if your data set is full of the unicorn $4k-8k Dell/HP/Lenovo workstations at corpo pricing .