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Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues
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Do people really buy this trash-teir garbage anymore?
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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And if RAM gets cheaper again, it will stay at this pricepoint.
“Due to COVID we are temporarily suspending the trolley service in your train”. Never returned.
“Due to COVID, we have temporarily removed your inflight magazine”. Never returned.
“Due to COVID, we now temporarily only clean your hotel room if you request it”. Still have to request a room clean.
“Due to COVID, the salad bar has been temporarily suspended”. Still no salad bar.
“Due to COVID, you now have to book a slot to go to the tip”. Still have to book a slot.
“Due to COVID, the sleeper train has been temporarily suspended”. Never returned.
These are just the examples I can think of.
Many of these things don't sound specifically wrong. Just heavily entrenched cultural artifacts that needed a catalyst for change to occur. Which, I, personally, don't mind.
Salad bar and sleeper train is pure evil.
Here in Sweden the government recently lowered taxes on groceries so that the stores would lower their prices for customers. lol
And did the stores lower their prices?
And the stores lowered their prices, right?
Groceries have taxes? I assumed basic groceries were zero rated everywhere.
No here is Denmark it's 25% vat
Thats wild, I'm used to zero rating on basic food goods in the UK. Unless its chocolate. That's taxable. Unless its a chocolate cake, thats a basic food again. But a chocolate biscuit attracts tax. Which was the whole thing about jaffa cakes and their tax status was about. Its a cake, therefore a basic food.
Catering, Alcohol, confectionary, crisps and snacks, hot food, sports drinks, ice cream and soft drinks are taxed.
Its all a bit complicated, but the more you can imagine someone eating it in 1910 the more likely its zero rated.
Until we kill every billionaire. This turns the gamers
I had one of these about 10 years ago. Pretty nice little things. However, since moving to Linux exclusively 8 years ago, I don't miss them at all. Plus, with all the publicly facing bullshit from Microsoft, it blows my kind that people will still spend money on this. Not an Apple fan either, but you can get a very powerful Mac for the sake money.
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface makes most of the features "just work" in mainstream distros on these devices.
In the laptop that can also be a decent tablet sometimes space, the brand still does really well, though most people are probably fine with tablet that can be a decent laptop sometimes. Hopefully mobile linux projects like mobian and postmarketos allow the later idea have more than iOS and Android as viable options soon.
Thé surface until 8 included run Linux amazingly. That one thing you have yo give to microslop it know how to make Linux shine. Look for the project surface linux these guys are amazing.
What do you run Linux on?
Lol, just as Apple released their lowest cost laptop ever at $600
let me guess... it's got less processing power than an iPod Nano.
Not really sure how big of a difference it makes but isn't the memory on the Neo on the same die as the processor? The A18 Pro is also likely a lot of old binned chips that they've been collecting for a year. I wouldn't be surprises if this completely isolated them from the rising memory costs. Apple really lucked out on the timing of their release. Not that the Neo wouldn't have been an amazing value regardless either way.
and its STILL insultingly expensive for what it is.
A laptop with one of the worst modern keyboards with a dated ARM phone soc.. Where have I heard that before.
If the pinebook can exist for $200 in tiny volumes, the macbook with its massive production volume is absolutely a slap in the face. The BOM on that thing can't be more than $200-250 even with the wasteful packaging and marketing.
That should be filling the $399 space the eee pc laptops did. The costs should have diminished down by now.
Huh? The CPU has still one of the highest single core performance benchmarks on the market, especially considering it's fanless. The keyboard is also really good as they got rid of the butterfly in 2019, it is unfortunate, it has no backlight, and RAM is limited to 8 gigabytes. Otherwise, a good deal with how good the screen and speakers are, and solid aluminum build quality
Gee mister I bet you sure do love paying phat margins on commodity goods.
To quote Allan Sugar, you've bought in to the mugs eyeful.
Nah, I buy used ThinkPads for cheap.
well, yeah, duh.
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TIL that they still made these
The slightly older ones make great Linux tablets. I use mine for comics.
I got a new surface pro 9 last year to run Linux on it
works great
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i have only ever seen one of these family of devices, a literal decade ago
It seemed popular at the time MS was pushing "Windows is a touch screen OS" phase, before remembering that there are pretty much no Windows apps that are useful with touchscreen, and the only reason they are relevant is 30 years of vital old software that businesses can't throw away.
I think the niche it tried to open was as a drawing tablet, basically being a built in Wacom, but an iPad and Procreate do that job so much better.
The surface actually looked pretty cool when it first came out. To me, at least. Times have changed tho, and windows has leapt in the shitter.
I saw one around ten years ago. My boss bought it, used it for a week and bought a new mac.
OS was the main issue for him.
I might get hate for this,but Windows 8 was the perfect operating system for this device. As soon as I upgraded to 10, none of the fun touch screen stuff was there anymore and I stopped using it.
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i honestly don't know who these things are for. I've never seen anyone using one in person. why the fuck would you put windows on a tablet
Everyone in the Netflix daredevil universe uses it.
Fisk must be a major shareholder in Microslop.
I have a surface pro 4. I love these machines. You can use it like a tablet, you can use it like a laptop. It's great for drawing and taking notes by hand.
The only problem is Windows, but that's not a big problem for the average person. The price of the new ones is a problem but I think the form factor is awesome.
It's like a better iPad in a way, since you could run full-scale desktop programs on it, and use it like a desktop.
I wouldn't be too surprised if things like surfaces were one of the reasons why Apple seems to be making a push to try and make the iPad functional as a computer on its own.
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There was a very weird placement on Supernatural on some episodes with a "tech genius". Very jarring how forced it was.
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But already cost like $1k. I can't figure why anyone would want one. It's like they took the worst things about a tablet and the worst things about a laptop and put them together.
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