Introducing Surface Laptop

Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by greyfox on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:41PM (#14250369)

I agree, i was expecting this to be priced around the same price as the chromebooks or netbooks (~$200 USD) and i was sticker shocked at $999

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by throw2016 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:55PM (#14250999)

Apple took the macbooks up by $200 for little reason. There was an article just a week ago that the surface book line was not doing well.

The obvious reason is because they are overpriced. And now they have made it even worse. This does not make much sense. Hopefully manufacturers like Asus can step up with even better quality Zenbooks and do not join this 'premium' binge.

It seems the 'premium manufacturers' see this as a non-elastic market and want to take the prices to around $2000. But is there enough differentiation in laptops beyond the screen and build quality to justify that premium. Everything else is off the shelf components and these dual core chips just don't seem to be worth this kind of money.

Even 'premium' phones are becoming dramatically more expensive with every refresh that are way out of sync with component prices.

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by philliphaydon on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:32AM (#14253290)

Surface products would probably do better if they were sold world wide.

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by UnoriginalGuy on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:32PM (#14250816)

$999 would be fine if it had Windows 10 Pro onboard. Then you're talking about a full Macbook Air competitor.

But once you notice Windows 10 S, then the price is unusual. I bet the hardware team is disappointed by that decision for this machine. It doesn't make sense.

And free updates until 2018 doesn't help tbh.

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