Microsoft says it hasn’t raised Floor costs

Microsoft hasn’t secretly raised Floor costs, as earlier studies claimed. As a substitute, it has eliminated the bottom fashions of the Floor Professional 13-inch and Floor Laptop computer 13.8-inch from Microsoft.com, based on an announcement by Nancie Gaskill, GM of the Floor group. “Prospects should buy base fashions of Professional and Laptop computer on the beginning value of $999 at different key retailers,” she added.

Presently, you possibly can nonetheless discover these fashions at Amazon and Best Buy, the place they’re discounted to $800. That is the identical value because the smaller (and slower) Floor Professional 12-inch, so potential patrons need to assume laborious about balancing portability versus energy. It is also unclear if these base fashions are nonetheless being produced by Microsoft, the corporate could possibly be attempting to promote by means of it is present inventory so future clients can solely order the costlier fashions.

Earlier this week, XDA first noticed a possible Floor value change at Microsoft.com. The beginning costs of the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop and 13-inch Surface Pro appeared to leap from $1,000 to $1,200 — nevertheless it seems these are simply higher-specced fashions.

And regardless of the confusion round precise Floor pricing, Microsoft has positively made its equipment costlier. The 65W Floor energy provide shot up from $90 to $120 this week, and the 127W variant went from $125 to $175. (Maybe think about the many cheaper options from Anker and other companies in our quick charging information.)

Microsoft additionally elevated Xbox prices last week increases. The Xbox Sequence X is now $80 costlier, whereas an Xbox Sequence X prices an additional $100.

Up to date 5/8/2025 6:00PM: Added Microsoft’s assertion about not rising Floor pricing.

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