SurfaceBook and Surface Pro 4 announced

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#1410471 21-Oct-2015 12:55

I see.

They wouldn't budge no matter what I tried. Tried asking for student discount, tried asking for discount if I bought 2 at the same time, nope. Guess they just aren't interested in my business.

dan

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#1410476 21-Oct-2015 13:02

nathan
they are doing a reseller expansion with IM at the moment, contact them if you want to apply

I made some calls to Ingram today as was curious, the requirements made me laugh, there is no point in applying for this unless your retail chain or similar where you can move large numbers of them

nathan

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#1410509 21-Oct-2015 14:27

dan:
nathan
they are doing a reseller expansion with IM at the moment, contact them if you want to apply

I made some calls to Ingram today as was curious, the requirements made me laugh, there is no point in applying for this unless your retail chain or similar where you can move large numbers of them

sure, if you're only forecasting to sell 5 a month etc, you might as well buy them from JB/Noel/Harvey etc and resell

The largest Surface reseller in NZ isn't a retailer BTW

nathan

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#1410511 21-Oct-2015 14:28

jeeg: I see.

They wouldn't budge no matter what I tried. Tried asking for student discount, tried asking for discount if I bought 2 at the same time, nope. Guess they just aren't interested in my business.

FYI they'll be available with Education discount from the Microsoft Store

dan

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#1410515 21-Oct-2015 14:31

nathan: you might as well buy them from JB/Noel/Harvey etc and resell

lol.

Yabanize

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#1410521 21-Oct-2015 14:59

I notice the student prices for the surface pro 3 are now the same as the general publics prices.

Winder what the surface pro 4 student pricing will be like

nathan

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#1410523 21-Oct-2015 15:09

dan:
nathan: you might as well buy them from JB/Noel/Harvey etc and resell

lol.

they have a commercial division that will Surface with margin still in it

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#1410524 21-Oct-2015 15:09

Yabanize: I notice the student prices for the surface pro 3 are now the same as the general publics prices.

Winder what the surface pro 4 student pricing will be like

in the US its 10% off (no idea about NZ sorry I don't live there now)

dan

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#1413543 25-Oct-2015 15:50

Surface accessories are 20% off at Noel Lemmings this long weekend, pre ordered the Surface Pro 4 type cover and picked up the Surface Ethernet usb adapter.

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#1413572 25-Oct-2015 18:20

surprising they would allow it

sidefx

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#1417103 30-Oct-2015 15:52

I see the latest pbtech flyer for this weekend has the Surface Book listed (i7 with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD) I guess parallel imported - I wonder if they will have a display model for it; quite keen to see one in the flesh. Bah on further investigation it looks like it's some sort of pre-order advert with release listed as 03/11...

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#1417105 30-Oct-2015 15:55

Unless it's a parallel import I wouldn't expect much from PBtech on MS pricing... I was trying to buy a Surface Pro 3 and was excited about PBtech having a "EVERYTHING AT WHOLESALE PRICES" sale a week or so ago.

Yep. Wholesale price for the MS Surface series is about 1.5% off regular price.

Sigh.

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#1417106 30-Oct-2015 15:56

Yep, it's the 2100 USD version listed for 4100 NZD... Not too fussed about the price though because either way it's too much for me. Still very interested to see one in action though ;-)

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#1417118 30-Oct-2015 16:02

Holy balls the Surface book is expensive.

Sooo pretty though. I see they haven't specified what the nVidia graphics is - I am picking a 950m level card?

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#1417123 30-Oct-2015 16:10

I think anandtech did some analysis on their sample and called it "similar" to a 940M, but I think it's some sort of custom chip specifically for the surface book...

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