Microsoft Unveils Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Pro 6 (venturebeat.com)

Microsoft said Tuesday it was refreshing the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro lineups with new models that offer updated specs and a black color option. The price tags have changed slightly: the Surface Laptop 2 starts at $999 (same as the Surface Laptop) while the Surface Pro 6 starts at $899 (up $100 from its predecessor). From a report: Both devices come with 8th-generation Intel Core processors (upgradeable all the way up to quad-core) and start at 128GB of SSD storage (upgradable to 1TB). The Surface Laptop 2 starts at 8GB of RAM (upgradeable to 16GB) while the Surface Pro 6 still comes with 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB of RAM. Panos Panay, head of engineering for all of Microsoft's devices, said the Surface Laptop 2 is 85 percent faster than the original Surface Laptop. He also mentioned that the screen features more than 3.4 million pixels, a 1,500:1 contrast ratio, and happens to be the lightest touchscreen panel on the market. Panay said the Surface Pro 6 is 67 percent more powerful than its predecessor (which oddly enough was just called Surface Pro). Surface Pro 6 still gets 13.5 hours of battery life, weighs 1.7 pounds, and has a 267ppi screen with "the highest contrast ratio" Microsoft has ever delivered.

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Re:Sweet

[b0s0z0ku]

Yep. Just picked up a refurb Dell 7240(?) with this kind of spec for $275. Perfect condition, upgradeable RAM and storage, removable battery, not sealed junk like MS and Crapple.

Re:Sweet

[Misagon]

What counts is not how old something is but how much you can yet get out of it.

With multiple USB-A ports and a keyboard that does not suck, I think also I would be more productive and less frustrated with that four-year old Dell than with a MS Surface.

And BTW, the Dell can be upgraded to 16 GB RAM because it takes DDR3 SODIMM's, whereas you can not upgrade four-year old MS Surface which is glued together and has soldered-in RAM.