What are your thoughts on the 15" Surface Laptop 3?

[Sorenson]

A lot of tech reviewers seem hyped about the15" Surface Laptop 3 and I don't get why. $1500 gets you a ryzen 5 mobile chip, 8gb of ram, and only 256gb of storage. If you move up to the R7 chip, it costs you $1700, get 16gb of ram, and still only has 256gb of storage. Am I missing something, or are these laptops crazy over priced?

 

I mean they kept taking shots at apple, but for $1300 you can get the base MacBook pro which comes with, what looks like from my research, a more powerful cpu than anything in the surface laptop 3 line. 

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, Sorenson said:

 

Ya, way too overpriced

I just want a T420 or X220 Thinkpad with a Ryzen 5 APU

[WWicket]

34 minutes ago, Sorenson said:

I mean they kept taking shots at apple, but for $1300 you can get the base MacBook pro which comes with, what looks like from my research, a more powerful cpu than anything in the surface laptop 3 line. 

Will need to wait for benchmarks to see how the 'Surface edition Ryzen' performs. 

 

Most the people I know that went with Surface 2 Laptops over Thinkpads or MacBooks etc., went with it because of the screen aspect ratio (and the Surface laptop has never represented a good cost-performance value).

[Sorenson]

2 hours ago, WWicket said:

Will need to wait for benchmarks to see how the 'Surface edition Ryzen' performs. 

 

Most the people I know that went with Surface 2 Laptops over Thinkpads or MacBooks etc., went with it because of the screen aspect ratio (and the Surface laptop has never represented a good cost-performance value).

Its a great looking laptop but it carries more of a price premium then the apple products it competes with. I'm definitely its target audience, since I like good looking devices that are at least moderately powerful. However, what you get for $1700 is laughable. Especially when it has competition like the new Razer blade stealth with a 1650 in it. Too bad OEM windows laptop companies can't get their act together with the screens they put in their devices. Dell is the only company that I know of besides microsoft that puts great screens in consumer windows devices.  

[Akira Shimazu]

it's more like premium laptop like macbook. is not about the performance but the aesthetic or design. yeah still over price.