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I feel similarly ripped off by expensive laptops with small hard drives. It would have been $800 more for a 1TB 15" Surface Book 2 than a 256GB 15" Surface Book
by MiddleEndian 5y ago
I feel similarly ripped off by expensive laptops with small hard drives. It would have been $800 more for a 1TB 15" Surface Book 2 than a 256GB 15" Surface Book 2 with otherwise identical specs. A 1TB hard drive is like $100. But you can't really swap the hard drive without peeling the screen off.
The hard drive size price issue is basically the same for the Surface Book 3, several years later. I like the design of the laptop but I won't be getting another one.
- tompazourek 5y agoSounds like they're copying what Apple is doing with the iPhones and their multiple storage sizes.
- MiddleEndian 5y agoI've always considered the Surface Book line to be Microsoft's answer to Apple's Macbook Pro, and design-wise, it's a pretty good one. Detachable tablets with a real operating system and a dedicated GPU base are kind of the ultimate form factor (unless they could fit that GPU into the tablet). But the specs fall short. Macbook Pro hard drives start at 512GB and go up to 8TB, and they have more ram at the high end as well. It's just annoying and I'm probably just going to try to build my own laptop in a year or two.
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