What a joke. $3800 for Microsoft's basic laptop, up to $5200 for a specced-out one.
This is $500 more than the current generation, which features the same Skylake processor and only has worse battery life and graphics performance.
https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msaus/en_AU/pdp/product…
Apple also slated to launch laptops with last-gen processor tomorrow. Why is no one making machines with Kaby Lake?
Lead time. Takes a fair while to get laptops out there.
lol what are you basing that on?
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So buy something else.
for me, not sure to sell my car or to take a personal loan or to go to casino to be able to afford this new MS book.
Meh. I remember getting a $5000 laptop as part of a job package in ~2000. For giggles, here was the spec:
Got a Dell from work at the beginning of 2001 with much better spec than this with a nice 15" 1600x1200 screen & Windows 2000, for a bit more then $3000. They must hadn't been bargaining hard :)
Mine was a Gateway 2000! I'll not hear a bad word about it.
I won't buy one but I guess its just marketing to people that want "the best"
If you spend 8 hours a day working on your laptop and another few of leisure time on the weekend you could be spending 50 hours a week using it. You pay $30,000 for a car you spend about a quarter of that time in but don't want to pay a few thousand for a laptop. People regularly pay 3-4 times more for the best car (Audi, BMW, Merc vs, Kia, Hyundai et al) so why not pay 3-4 times more for the best computer you can get?
You pay a stupid amount for a car so why not pay a stupider amount for a laptop is terrible reasoning to anyone that understands these things are both monetary losses.
My Dell cost a little over $3,000
It's a business tool that makes me money.
Sure I could have gotten a cheaper laptop but it wouldn't be as fast and I wouldn't be as productive (make less money).
It also makes a good impression in meetings.
So in your mind, all you think Microsoft did was hammer in a new processor and install a bigger battery?
Microsoft is undoubtedly the leader right now in software and hardware design. The R&D on these things is crazy and the price reflects that. Watch this video, it's a glimpse of how these things are developed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdk9OqDqyf8
If you asked me when I woke up this morning whether I'd be amazed at a Microsoft design today, I'd have answered 'probably not'. But after seeing the Surface Studio reveal this morning…wow.
$3800 for Microsoft's basic laptop
Basic? That's the i7 model with dedicated graphics card. Of course it's going to be pricier. You can still buy the lower-specced ones just fine.
almost all gadgets are a joke when they first release.
therefore, people who bought gadgets at first release are JOKER.
and people who camp 3 nights at apple store are ABSOLUTE JOKER