{"id":1324,"date":"2025-05-09T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:13:26","slug":"microsoft-says-it-hasnt-raised-surface-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/microsoft-says-it-hasnt-raised-surface-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says it hasn&#8217;t raised Surface prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Instead, the company removed base Surface models from Microsoft.com<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/XfA5T9LeDTVjUfCrbXbEyQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU3NjtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2025-05\/9085bfc0-2b83-11f0-8ecd-8dd72d1c3f84\">Microsoft hasn&#8217;t secretly raised Surface prices, as earlier reports claimed. Instead, it has removed the base models of the Surface Pro 13-inch and Surface Laptop 13.8-inch from Microsoft.com, according to a statement by Nancie Gaskill, GM of the Surface group. &#8220;Customers can purchase base models of Pro and Laptop at the starting price of $999 at other key retailers,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, you can still find those models atAmazonandBest Buy, where they&#8217;re discounted to $800. That&#8217;s the same price as the smaller (and slower) Surface Pro 12-inch, so potential buyers have to think hard about balancing portability versus power. It&#8217;s also unclear if those base models are still being produced by Microsoft, the company could be trying to sell through it&#8217;s existing stock so future customers can<em>only<\/em>order the more expensive models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week,<em>XDA<\/em>firstnoticeda potential Surface price change at Microsoft.com. The starting prices of the13.8-inch Surface Laptopand13-inch Surface Proappeared to jump from $1,000 to $1,200 \u2014 but it turns out those are just higher-specced models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/detail-Microsoft-1746960-MQ20\">MQ20 Battery for Microsoft Surface Pro 9 2032 1996 1997 2038<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And despite the confusion around actual Surface pricing, Microsoft has definitely made its accessories more expensive. The 65W Surface power supply shot up from $90 to $120 this week, and the 127W variant went from $125 to $175. (Perhaps consider themany cheaper options from Anker and other companiesin our fast charging guide.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft also increasedXbox prices last week increases. The Xbox Series X is now $80 more expensive, while an Xbox Series X costs an extra $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Updated 5\/8\/2025 6:00PM:<\/strong>Added Microsoft&#8217;s statement about not increasing Surface pricing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, the company removed base Surface models from Microsoft.com Microsoft hasn&#8217;t secretly raised Surface prices, as earlier reports claimed. Instead, it has removed the base models of the Surface Pro 13-inch and Surface Laptop 13.8-inch from Microsoft.com, according to a statement by Nancie Gaskill, GM of the Surface group. &#8220;Customers can purchase base models of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/microsoft-says-it-hasnt-raised-surface-prices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft says it hasn&#8217;t raised Surface prices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}