Probably the harshest "review" I've read in a while but seems accurate. This is supposed to be the budget ("Go") product and there's nothing budget about its $1k price tag.<p>Either Microsoft is completely incompetent in its supply chain management since a comparable Asus, HP, Dell laptop is at most 1/2 price for similar specs. Or grossly overpricing the design. Heck even the reviewer mentioned a $300 Gateway laptop surpassing this easily.<p>No wonder Panos Panay jumped ship. Uncertain whether he signed off on one this willingly or forced to.
Macbook Air for the same price has more than twice the pixels, and higher brightness.<p>MS could have at least beaten Apple on RAM and SSD specs, where Apple charges $200 extra for $20 worth of hardware… but they didn't.
Microsoft is trying to anchor the price of their more expensive laptops. When the "low-end" laptops start at $999, charging $1500+ for a "mid-range" laptop doesn't seem so outrageous anymore.<p>That's the whole reason this thing exists
I wonder if this was made targeting enterprise. Microsoft shops that don't spend much time crunching what they're paying per user, or were already used to paying ~$1000. It's a safe choice cause it's made by Microsoft. IT is probably already in the swing of deploying Surface devices. No backlit keyboard because people are gonna be using it during the day in a lit office. Makes sense from that perspective.
Why is Microsoft making laptops period? I understand the actual Surface tablet thing is a wacky hangover from the Windows 8/Ballmer days, but these just seem to be competing with the billion other Windows laptop makers. Huh?
> I don’t even hate the Go 3 that much.<p>What ringing praise. Yikes, this review is worse than if they had just said "I hate this thing and it has no redeeming qualities".
I guess the opposite of "there's no bad products, only bad prices" could be "there's no good products, only good prices."