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Surface laptop ships with 8GB RAM for $1299 despite pushing 16GB for Copilot PCs
by MoltenMonster
by MoltenMonster
Like, I didn't see a single mention of why they chose 8GB while recommending 16GB. It's like a straw man argument: why not at least explore possible causes?
My take-home message is Microsoft's hypocrisy, like "When Microsoft unveiled the Copilot+ PC standard, they drew a hard line in the sand when they said that 16GB of RAM is the absolute minimum requirement to earn the Copilot+ PC badge." but "now that Surface Laptop 13 for business is about to get an 8GB RAM variant and it’s still marketed as a Copilot+ PC, it just goes to prove that Microsoft isn’t consistent with RAM recommendations".
Plus, "It is shamefully hypocritical to mock Apple for shipping an 8GB laptop, only to turn around and announce an 8GB Surface Laptop for $1,299.99, which is, hilariously, more than double the price of the $599 MacBook Neo."
FWIW, the author says "It’s not the first time Microsoft has experimented with crippling low RAM" and believes it's "a return to the standard business playbook Microsoft used with the Surface Laptop 5 and 6", so not necessarily tied specifically to the RAM shortage.
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