My old macbook pro 2014-mid is horribly out of date at this stage. While I want to replace it with a new macbook, its pricing is prohibitively expensive, and I don't have a budget for it.

I'm basically thinking of some decent laptop that can do bash natively at a bare minimum (see os for bash requirement). For now some cheap windows laptop or a chromeOS (I mean, chromebook) is in plan.