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

Posted by msmash on from the new-hardware-lineup dept.

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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  1. Sweet by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    More hardware that people won't buy. $1000 laptops with 8 GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Welcome to 2018.

    1. Re:Sweet by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 2

      Haswell at least has drivers for Win 7. It's also fast enough for 99% of work and supports 16GB of RAM (it's upgradeable, not sealed trash). Comparing price is valid if a refurb does the same fuckin thing as a Smurface.

    2. Re:Sweet by Misagon · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

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      "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
  2. Re:*YAWN* at Smurface by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because the hardware is sealed, unrepairable, environmentally irresponsible shit designed to be tossed out if it breaks, making more e-waste. Fuck any company that promotes this model.

  3. "Mandatory technologies" NOT available on Linux? by mykepredko · · Score: 2

    Wow.

    I'll still stick with Linux.

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    Mimetics Inc. Twitter
  4. Re: "Mandatory technologies" NOT available on Linu by nnull · · Score: 2

    Hurrr durrr ok. I do work on Linux and so does my entire facility. Even my laptop is Linux.

  5. Re:*YAWN* at Smurface by exomondo · · Score: 2

    So load ubuntu on a surface?

    I think that's probably one of the more interesting things here, for all the years and years of paranoia and fear-mongering posts here about how Microsoft is the devil and will use SecureBoot to lock out alternative operating systems not only has that not happened but even now at the 6th generation of Microsoft's own hardware you can still disable SecureBoot and install Linux. Not only did the conspiracy theories not come to pass with OEMs but it didn't even happen with Microsoft's own Surface devices.

  6. Re:Doesn't matter how great if they have Windows 1 by exomondo · · Score: 2

    I won't consider them.

    This is still one of the biggest problems for Linux, no matter how easy it is to install the general populace is still made up of people like you that can't comprehend installing a different operating system or not using the system as it came out of the box.