Design, Portability, and Battery Life > RAM and USB-C?

[Keeptechcoolandsimple]

It depends on what you're planning to use your laptop for and also as already mentioned, Surface is priced as high so they would not compete directly with Microsoft's OEMs like Dell, Lenovo, HP and others.

I agree it's shame that it doesn't have a USB-C port, but hey, population that this was made for likely won't need the USB-C port and it's true that battery life and design is mostly the most important thing that students are looking for. Now I am not saying that they're not looking for performance, but from my experience the performance usually doesn't interest them as much as battery life and design, though I still think that Surface Laptop is going to do a great job handling the tasks it was designed for to handle.

Perhaps we will see USB-C on another Surface device, if not before then on the second generation Surface Laptop (I am pretty sure USB-C is going to be mainstream by then).

yup. don't underestimate the importance of design. can't count the number of people who opted for macbook because it "looks pretty".