Best value in 2026?

Hi all! I’ve been wanting to get back into Macbook land to help kickstart my creativity. I had an end-of-era Intel Macbook Air for a while that was lovely but had to get rid of it, and the ancient Mac mini I’ve been using since i’d really starting to go out. My main thing is music creation/editing. I use Logic Pro. I like photo editing as well. Besides that it’s really just a lot of web surfing, so I’m really just looking for the optimal machine for Logic. A very tight budget is needed right now and options are interesting. I was looking into M1 Air cause I think just getting into Apple silicon will prove a massive jump, but I don’t know if it’s worth it to try and spring a generation newer, or do something else all together. Any and all suggestions are welcome! Thank you and sorry for the wall of text lol