Microsoft launches its first Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs with new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, and they're shockingly expensive

Damn that's expensive 😳. Most businesses I've dealt with over the years tend to opt for the cheapest laptop configurations they can get away with. I cannot imagine Tesco, BP, NatWest, etc lining up to buy devices in the £1500 range.

On a separate note, what happens to Intel when every legacy programme is re-tooled to Arm?

It seems like WoA is on a roll. Plenty of new devices available, the windows Arm store is looking healthy, WoA adoption is high, etc... Where does that leave x86, say 3-5 years from now?
 
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Right! If you buy some Apple Air machine for $1,500 , you can figure it will last about 8 years. That's about $188 per year. With any Windows computer, their quality is such that you are LUCKY to get 4 years of service out of those, so $1,500.00 / 4 is $375.00 per year.
And NO, MSFT and HP, or MSFT & ASUS, or MSFT & Lenovo is definitely not worth $375.00 per year. And especially not since MS Office used to be a $100 every 10 years
expense, and now it costs $100 every year. Yup, 10 times as much, for about the same
value, minus the customer service from 15 years ago, minus the idea that DELIVERING ACTUAL IMPROVEMENT is what makes a thing more valuable. Office 365 provides less value, less certainty, less improvement than whatever Office 2000 or Office 2010 delivered 25 or 15 years ago. MSFT does not care about customers, over and over!

Again Microsoft miscalculates, thinking they are "All that", when they are
certainly "NOT ALL THAT!"
 
Awesome Lunar Lake SOC, awesome hardware (Surface Pro 11).
Price wise it's a tough buy for an interested consumer. Business wise probably too, since usually for the majority of the work force only base spec budget devices are ordered.

I'd prefer a Lunar Lake SoC over a Qualcom ARM version currently, simply because game comparability is a given and currently better on x86.
 

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