>microsoft surface laptop >$999 - 4gb i5 >$1299 - 8gb i5 >$1599 - 4gb i7 >$2199 - 8gb i7 >all of them come with windows 10 S, you need to pay more to (((unlock))) the full OS
You can't write software, you can't run unsigned code, you don't even get a shell without paying the $50 extra for windows 10 pro. You probably can't even run linux on it because of the locked bootloader. Is it going to become industry standard to sell a personal computer that doesn't actually let you write software or execute unsigned code? Am I going to have to jailbreak my computer 10 years from now?
Jace Long
At the very least the i7 models should be given Pro, kinda dumb.
Kevin Watson
People buy surfaces?
Aaron Taylor
Welcome, to the real world.
Cameron Cruz
>thinkpad t420s >8gb i7 - $224 >FHD IPS upgrade kit + panel - $100 >pirate any windows or install gnu+linux distro - $0
>he has no waterproof keyboard
Liam Gomez
Welcome, to comma, splice
Daniel Cruz
Why have I been seeing this pink haired anime girl so much lately?
Julian Thomas
I don't see anything
Eli Harris
Good, windows 10s is needed because so many retards use PCs.
If you're a power user you shouldn't be using gay ass surface tablets anyway. Use a real laptop or desktop.
Grayson Smith
Buld a Custom PC if you want freedom
Jayden Sanders
Who says this will be available in the future? The only thing keeping the enthusiast PC market alive is pc gaming and even this is already slowly dying.
Brandon Nguyen
If it has an i5/i7, can't you just PXE boot to WDS and install Win 10 LTSB?
Liam Clark
OP could be an artist or something. I'm pretty sure they're the best for drawing things.
Charles Gray
Congrats, you ARENT their target market.
Jayden Robinson
Who's the target market for a $2100 computer that can't run win32 applications?
Blake Campbell
>windows 10s >intel FUCK. Way to shit all over your best product microshaft.
Apple seems to be making a killing off that market.
Logan Butler
not anymore
Adam Powell
Their laptop division is no longer profitable?
Jackson Harris
>Am I going to have to jailbreak my computer 10 years from now?
10 years from now "your" computer is going to be an implanted chip required for citizenship and nobody even knows how it works or exactly what it does anymore
Juan Lee
you don't know what the future is ball chin
Zachary Young
if you are paying $2000, hell even $1000 for a machine, an extra $50 isnt a big deal
stick with your 15 year old ebay shitpads kiddo
Adrian Cruz
>buy $100,000 car >doesn't even come with gas
defend this
Elijah Wright
Have you ever bought a car? They charge everything extra
Jason Foster
They're overpriced because they're neat to compete with MacBook Pros, which are similarly overpriced. Being overpriced makes a product like a status symbol
Bentley Wilson
*meant to compete with MacBook Pros
Josiah Long
With the advantage that you don't need to setup boot camp :^) However the 50$ os upgrade is an overkill
Gabriel Bennett
So one of two things
Don't buy these laptops Or Pay the 50 dollars for the upgrade
Ian Sanchez
>999 4gb i5 128GB >999 for 4GB of RAM
Jayden Williams
Or stop being retarded and accept the free upgrade to Pro before the year ends
Brody Taylor
>he spills water on his electronics
Zachary Miller
>1000 dollars for 4 gigs of ram
what
Mason Watson
>buying base model anything
Brayden Diaz
8GB of memory is like $45, why the FUCK does it cost an additional $500?
Nicholas Adams
> BEING A FAGGOT Do you not know that being able to install only from the app store is going will protect a machine very little?
Carter Diaz
professional hipster, just like applefags
Brayden Morgan
100% of viruses come from outside the windows app store. It will protect the machine fucking incredibly.
David Evans
maybe its i7 with actual 4cores/4threads and not i7 with 2cores/4threads. Literally i hate these i7 on laptops >make i3 >call it i7 >charge 20x markup price
Evan Diaz
>FHD IPS upgrade kit + panel Where do you find this?
Joseph Jackson
>i7 >15 watt what did they mean by this ?
Jayden Wood
If I remember correctly. You can upgrade Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro for free on the Surface Laptop until the end of 2017.
Aiden Gonzalez
6600U and 7600U CPUs have a TDP of 15w
Luke Ramirez
Why would anyone buy this? I don't get it, it's literally the worst of windows and macs, without any of the possible advantages.
Jordan Morgan
Yeah, but this is a Pajeetbook, they don't have that kind of blind following.
Nolan Brown
No it's free upgrade for many months actually
Oliver Murphy
>buying a m$ anything cant wait for the ryzen laptops. i saw an asus """teaser""" but it looked nice
Nathan Peterson
I thought it was an old class ThioJoe tier joke. Lol, MS is becoming sh*t af.
Sebastian Evans
>mfw he can't post on Sup Forums while underwater
Caleb Young
It doesn't, and it's not just ram.
Luis Thompson
Anyone still complaining about Apple being overpriced now.
Isaiah Wood
>tfw bought a chinkshit laptop >13.3 inch 1080p with meh IPS panel >i5 6200U >2x4GB of RAM >128GB SSD, 2.5inch >no info battery but system holds for 6 hours with max brightness, wifi on and using it for stupid shit like youtube/coding and shitposting here >cost me 450$ >came with windows 10 pro licensekey >looks like a rip off a macbook air
Not even mad, gonna swap the 128gb ssd for a 525gb ssd that I got from christmas sale and install ubuntu
Tyler Diaz
What is TCG?
Sebastian Bell
>20 years from now >hard drives come coupled with locked bootloaders you physically can't unlock without destroying the thing >you can't get a hard drive without Windows >you can't get a processor that allows running any other OS >every mobo checks if the OS is Windows and shuts down if it's not >mfw
William Hughes
Inb4 you have to jailbreak your mind to escape the botbet 10 years from now
Henry Parker
>Is it going to become industry standard to sell a personal computer that doesn't actually let you write software or execute unsigned code? Yes, and that is a good thing. Normal people cannot and do not want to write their own programs. So asking for a surcharge for that is okay. In exchange, they get a Store that allows easy application discovery in a central place with less security issues.
Lincoln Davis
Post Windows key here so Microsoft can blacklist it for piracy
Jeremiah King
trading card game
Alexander Mitchell
kek
David Rogers
kek
Thomas Rogers
LOL
Levi Cook
Not so gay now, is it? No ads No limited OS UNIX
Easton Walker
Actually, Microcenter recently reported an increase in interest in system-building.
There isn't one. These things are full retard. Mac prices for a Windows computer that doesn't run Windows software by default.
Speaking as a Mac user, I get by just fine. For a similar price to what Microsoft asks in order to get a functional OS on the Surface Laptop, I can buy a Parallels Desktop license and pirate Windows, or vice versa, and have both MacOS *and* Windows running concurrently. Or I can just pirate both for nothing (which is exactly what I did!).
Fuck Boot Camp. If you don't need 3D acceleration, VMs are completely adequate, and impressively turn-key these days. I honestly think Apple should acquire Parallels Desktop (and related tools) and tap it as a successor to Boot Camp.
To be fair, almost 100% of useful software *also* comes from outside the Windows app store.
Hey, uhh... You know that the Mac bootloader explicitly allows you to install other OSes alongside the MacOS partition, right? It's not like Windows. It doesn't tell you to go fuck yourself if you want to use something else.
Pretty much this.
Dylan Morales
>this tasty butthurt
Justin Davis
Not sure how I'm supposed to be butthurt. Just rolling through to dispel some of the standard Sup Forums bullshit, as usual.
The Surface Laptop sucks.
Eli Morales
Show me another laptop with a 3:2 aspect ratio and I'll happily buy it
Jaxon Ortiz
The surface doesn't exist.
Sebastian Sanders
Helo when surface with Ryzen APU? :---D??
Sebastian James
>Anime Hi. Kill yourself.
Juan Baker
>$2199
what the fuck it's not even a real i7, it's one of those rebranded i3s with the 2 cores with 4 fake threads
Caleb Bell
literally never
Hudson Foster
There's the Internet and common sense for that.
Jonathan Wilson
Damn that's a really fucking good deal.
Samuel Mitchell
>tfw top tier 2015 MBP masterrace
Do wish I got a bigger SSD version tho, I'm gonna swap it out when my apple care expires, or maybe before then