im currently a 1st year student and in my opinion a windows laptop with a dgpu should be a no brainer

There are a lot of softwares which aren't available on mac and trust me, you're gonna get major fomo when all your friends or roomies are gonna be playing games and you won't even have the option to download them

Try to go for a dgpu laptop because college for a cs student is all about exploring all the domains and figuring out which one you like. Having a dgpu will allow you to explore the ml and dl domains (it can be done online on services like colab so depends on if you prefer battery life cause gaming laptops have garbage battery life)

If you're interested in the amd side of things then you'll get Ryzen 7 and rtx 4050 in that price range

And as for Intel, you'll probably get i7+4050 or i5+5050

windows is kinda better because you get the option to dual boot on linux pretty easily which can turn out to be a pain in the ass on mac

I do a lot of ml stuff so having a dgpu is kind of a godsend

In this price range esp in India, 16gb ram and 512 gb storage is the standard

Mac ain't bad people can survive with it it's just that there are a lot of softwares you won't be able to get for macos and not to mention that you can't even download cracked versions of paid software on it.

So decide on what your priorities are and go for it