After claiming 16GB RAM is the minimum for Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft is launching a $1,300 Surface Laptop with just 8GB. Why it makes no sense.
  • N-E-N@lemmy.caEnglish
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    43 minutes ago

    I find it strange how unwilling Microsoft is to be price competitive with Apple. It really shouldn’t be that difficult to price comparably to apple

  • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    This statement is fundamentally wrong. Asking enterprise users to settle for 8GB of memory in a premium $1,299 machine in 2026 is the definition of trading off performance and will tarnish the Surface brand’s reputation for long-term reliability.

    In what world are surfaces reliable? All I hear from people who get them from work are what absolute pieces of shit these things are.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
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      26 minutes ago

      At my last job while doing a lot of win 11 computer replacements, I managed to snag a couple of laptops that were going to be ewasted. One I keot for myself was an early surface. SSD and RAM are soildered to the motherboard so no upgrade or replacement path. Runs warm and the cpu is kinda trash.

      Whatever, free computer is free and running mint its usually fine.

    • aldhissla@piefed.worldEnglish
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      52 minutes ago

      I’ve bought a Surface Go 2 a few years back and the startup time has steadily risen from a poor ~2min to well over 5min. But ever since I’ve deactivated secure boot and installed Debian with Plasma, it’s become my beloved workhorse with a boot time of <1min after entering the LVM key.

      Surfaces are great hardware for the (old) price. A pity hardware’s becoming unaffordable…

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        25 minutes ago

        You mean with Windows?

        From my favorite e-waste retailer I saw that the pricing of surface go 2 and 3 is enticing and I wanted to try them - but with Linux. With Linux is usable, right? Plasma can recognize tablet mode automatically?

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      3 hours ago

      My surface pro is okay whenever I have to take a windows laptop to a job site. The unreliability comes from Windows 11, but the hardware has been fine.

      Hell you can have an overspec’d gaming PC and Windows still sucks the life out of it.

      • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        No, I am talking about the hardware. At least 4 seperate people I’ve spoken to had nothing but issues with work assigned surfaces. At least a cursory google turned up a few threads with similar sentiments.