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Title: Microsoft Effectively Raises High-End Surface Prices By Discontinuing
Base Models

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/08/1842240/m...

An anonymous reader shares a report: When Microsoft announced new Surface
devices earlier this week, we noted that there wasn't a lot of daylight
between the starting prices of the new but lower-end devices ($799 for the 12-
inch Surface Pro, $899 for the 13-inch Surface Laptop) and the starting
prices of the older-but-higher-end Surfaces from last spring ($999 for both).
It appears Microsoft has quietly solved this problem by discontinuing the
256GB versions of the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 and the 13-inch Surface Pro
11. Microsoft's retail pages for both devices list only 512GB and 1TB
configurations, with regular prices starting at $1,199. Though not
technically a price hike -- the 512GB versions of both devices also cost
$1,199 before -- it does amount to an effective price increase for last
year's Surface hardware, especially given that both devices have user-
replaceable storage that can easily be upgraded for less than the $200 that
Microsoft charged for the 256GB-to-512GB upgrade. The upshot is that the new
Surface PCs make more sense now than they did on Tuesday in relative terms,
but it's only because you'll pay more to buy a Surface Pro 11 or Surface
Laptop 7 than you would before. The 15-inch version of the Surface Laptop 7
still lists a 256GB configuration and a $1,299 starting price, but the 256GB
models are currently out of stock.

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