You talk of the great engineering of Microsoft, but remember that they needed TWO revisions on their 'perfect' Xbox One controller, and they didn't update that $150 Elite Controller that turned out to have some notable design flaws. They all put out high-end devices, and the specs usually kick the pants off the $1,000 Surface Laptop model. I've got nothing to say that I think MS builds better devices than Lenovo, Dell, ASUS, or HP. What do you base any of those claims onn though? Surfaces have had pretty serious flaws with things like power management early on in their lives, for example. The SP4 entry model has 4GB of ram and with keyboard, was over $1000 at its release.

But its by far and away not a given that people need more than 4GB or should expect it in over $1k machine. If you happen to need something else, that's *fine*.

The Surface Laptop *will* perform better for a majority of applications that people use. We don't even know the kind of RAM in each machine. You're picking *one* spec over so many others. That's a stupid and absurd arbirtary rule. A machine's price alone can't be dictated by the amount of RAM. But to belittle the technological achievements and value of all the other things you're choosing to ignore simply because you want more RAM is ridiculous. Yeah, if you need RAM, buy one with more RAM. So its behind on interface technology which will severely limit its speeds. I notice you ignored that its extremely unlikely that your linked model uses PCIe SSD vs SATA SSD. An SSD vs HDD on a machine that compiles lots of code? That hardware makes a world of difference over RAM.

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