The fine print behind Microsoft’s new Surface financing plan, “Surface Plus”

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If you’re in the market for a Surface machine, there’s a new zero-percent 24 month payment plan that you should consider. Post coming in Computerworld
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I think HP has some sort of purchase plan on their premium brand PC’s. I guess it’s come down to easy money to help sell PC’s these days..

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I’ve been browser tab shopping (excluding the exotic fully customizable gaming pc/laptops) just to see what the marketing is about a ‘premium’ computer. A select few are really premium products, mostly they are a tweaked collection of parts with little system ram.

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Skip the offer of debt and yet another set of terms and conditions, maybe skip the device as it may get abandoned in less than two years. You may also enjoy having less driver headaches.

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I prefer cash-n-carry with computer stuff. Less problems. Also, I build my own desktops so I often start accumulating parts over several weeks/months.

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So I’m just jesting here (at least I hope I am lol) but I foresee a problem with the 24month plan.

The Microsoft store says there is a 1 year hardware limited warranty. Does that mean that is the “supported” life cycle of the device? That means the next “version” of Windows 10 that comes out after this one year, will it not support this device anymore and then you have less than 18 months left of security updates? Depending on how the releases are sent out, you could find yourself still paying for a Surface Pro that will not get anymore updates?

Please – debate and be merry lol.

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@Rock

Hardware warranty is usually about undetected manufacturing defects that result in hardware failure = free replacement of the defective hardware. The warranty exclude things like improper use, accidental dropping, doing self-repairs, etc.

Win 10 may not be supported by M$ if the OEMs stop supporting their hardware devices, eg by not providing new device drivers for new Versions of Win 10, intentional/planned or not. Remember, Planned Obsolescence?

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