Lenovo charges $149 (regularly $170) for the same upgrade in the X1
Microsoft charges $200 for the same upgrade in the Surface Pro 7
It sucks that they raised the price (and I'd love to hear the story behind it), but it's on par with everyone else.
How do you figure? A large % of the population is now work from home and seeking to equip their home offices.
We're in the process of moving our entire data center into the cloud before the end of July. I'm anticipating an announcement that our office will not be reopening and that we're all now remote staff.
I have to schedule an appointment to go into the office to retrieve my personal belongings from my desk as well as any equipment I'd like for my home office.
If anything many people are investing in new computers, or cameras or video games than ever before.
At least in my country, lockdown is just starting and I got a new laptop last week.
The Surface line is Microsoft's best chance at their own hardware, and I kept buying Surface after Surface, hoping it would get better. Unfortunately, they have all had build quality issues, hardware problems, or just some kind of strangeness that pushed me over the edge to buy an iPad Pro, and when that happened, I was dumbstruck how Apple entered the market much later than Microsoft and yet Apple still nailed the handwriting feel much better. Windows 10 is a real operating system, which is great and makes the Surface feel like a real computer, but the pen quality differences are too great to ignore, and the notetaking PDF apps for iOS are in a different league (Goodnotes 5, Notability). OneNote is not as good.
If you have, how does it compare with the iPad Pro?
MacBook Pro 2019, MacBook Air 2020, and and previous MacBook has always charged $200 for 16GB or 512GB upgrade.
And the original $100 dollar upgrade was very non-Apple.
Which makes me think it was an error from their part and they decide to fix it at start of the month due to whatever accounting / operation reason.
Why is in 2020 a "Pro" laptop coming with only 8 GB of RAM?