$1,599 Surface Laptop 8 Loses the Price War to Asus

$1,599 Surface Laptop 8 is polished, but a faster $1,349 Asus Zenbook A14 makes Microsoft’s pricing hard to defend.

Key takeaways

• Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 8 is not struggling because the hardware looks weak; it is struggling because Asus makes the $1,599 starting price look exposed.
• The new 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 8 pairs Microsoft’s compact laptop design with Qualcomm’s updated Snapdragon X2 chips, but the base configuration reviewed by Note...
• Microsoft’s $1,599 Surface Bet Runs Into a Cheaper, Faster Asus
• The central issue is simple: Microsoft built a very good everyday laptop, then priced it against a rival that looks stronger on paper.

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