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Is this really a Chromebook competitor with a price starting at $999?

by adam12 9y ago

kyriakos 9y ago
I guess Microsoft never officially pitted Windows S against ChromeOS - the media did.
- mikhailt 9y ago
  Microsoft specifically mentioned Chromebooks when they talked about one of the school districts switching away from it to Windows 10 S for simplification.
dangrossman 9y ago
"New Windows 10 Education PCs will be coming out soon from partners including Asus, Samsung, Dell, and HP, starting at $189." The Surface Laptop isn't meant to compete with those. Like everything else in the Surface line, it's more of an example to the rest of the industry of what kind of devices they could/should be building for Windows to run on.
- kyriakos 9y ago
  189 will be low res & atom based but I guess you get what you pay for.
  - SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
    I have a cheap Windows 2-in-1 that lists for $180 but I picked up for $100. I'm reasonably happy with it, except for the touchpad (planning to get a mouse and disable), but for the price it's certainly a fine computer. It's definitely what I'd buy for a kid. I expect that MS is just encouraging more of those kinds of devices to be made, maybe with slightly better HW.
- mrweasel 9y ago
  That's honestly the route Microsoft needs to stop taking. Microsofts hardware partners have shown time and time again that they will sell extremely low quality hardware just to hit certain price brackets. Many of the complains people have about Windows is often down to poor quality and low performance hardware. At least HP would rather sell you a piece of crap laptop that can't actually run Windows, than admit that it's not actually possible to deliver at the price point the customer asks for.
alimbada 9y ago
Chromebook Pixel.
dragonwriter 9y ago
Windows 10S is their ChromeOS competitor, and Surface Laptop is the high-end, professional flagship product for that OS, similar to what Google's Chromebook Pixel was when the Pixel launched (though the Pixel wasn't the first Chromebook announced, obviously.)

Is this really a Chromebook competitor with a price starting at $999?

by adam12 9y ago

Is this really a Chromebook competitor with a price starting at $999?

kyriakos 9y ago

I guess Microsoft never officially pitted Windows S against ChromeOS - the media did.

mikhailt 9y ago
Microsoft specifically mentioned Chromebooks when they talked about one of the school districts switching away from it to Windows 10 S for simplification.

dangrossman 9y ago

"New Windows 10 Education PCs will be coming out soon from partners including Asus, Samsung, Dell, and HP, starting at $189." The Surface Laptop isn't meant to compete with those. Like everything else in the Surface line, it's more of an example to the rest of the industry of what kind of devices they could/should be building for Windows to run on.

kyriakos 9y ago
189 will be low res & atom based but I guess you get what you pay for.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
  I have a cheap Windows 2-in-1 that lists for $180 but I picked up for $100. I'm reasonably happy with it, except for the touchpad (planning to get a mouse and disable), but for the price it's certainly a fine computer. It's definitely what I'd buy for a kid. I expect that MS is just encouraging more of those kinds of devices to be made, maybe with slightly better HW.
mrweasel 9y ago
That's honestly the route Microsoft needs to stop taking. Microsofts hardware partners have shown time and time again that they will sell extremely low quality hardware just to hit certain price brackets. Many of the complains people have about Windows is often down to poor quality and low performance hardware. At least HP would rather sell you a piece of crap laptop that can't actually run Windows, than admit that it's not actually possible to deliver at the price point the customer asks for.

alimbada 9y ago

Chromebook Pixel.

dragonwriter 9y ago

Windows 10S is their ChromeOS competitor, and Surface Laptop is the high-end, professional flagship product for that OS, similar to what Google's Chromebook Pixel was when the Pixel launched (though the Pixel wasn't the first Chromebook announced, obviously.)