MS Surface Laptop

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On paper, the surface laptop looks like a really nice device, surface build quality, nice (touch enabled) screen, great battery life (claimed). A nice alternative to the Mac Air for those that want a non OSX device.

The entry level is a tempting at £979 but 128 SSD + 4GB RAM on a Windows device is probably not that inspiring. The spec upgrade pricing just looks insane:

i5 256 SSD, 8GB RAM = £1,249
i7 256 SSD, 8GB RAM = £1,549
i7 512 SSD, 16GB RAM = £2,149 !!

Also the ports look a little lacking, no USB-C, no thunderbolt 3, no SD/MiniSD.

Bit hit and miss at that price level?
 
It's an almost laptop....could have been epic....it's good, not great

oh and "i7 512 SSD, 16GB RAM = £2,149" hahahahahaha

Please, please, PLEASE can I have some of what Microsoft are smoking
 
I share the disappointment with the price but I do like the direction that we are going. Rev2 will be hopefully we it is at - for now, the dell xps or some of the HP laptops are better suits to my needs. It is great to see MS in competing with apple for the "premium student / coffee shop procrastinator" segment and I have high hopes for the next revision.
For what it's worth, my Pro 4 work machine is lightening fast and running win10 pro and joined to domain via Azure it is as smooth as butter - thought you would expect that at i7 with 16GB Ram
 
The only thing I like about it is it being 7th Gen CPU, gives more hope for the Pro 5 and Book 2..
 
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