Some Microsoft Surface devices just received big price cuts, but the problem is that they’ve also had big RAM cuts

• Microsoft has reduced the price of last year’s 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop models
• The newly introduced base models have 8GB of RAM and provide some relief from recent significant price increases.
• This is not a compromise that some people like, and they argue that 8GB is not enough for a laptop these days.

Microsoft has given us some more affordable Surface devices, models that are back under a thousand dollars in the US due to price cuts, but there’s a catch, and that’s the compromise made to achieve this price.

Windows Central reports that Microsoft’s chosen tactic here is to launch new variants of last year’s 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop with just 8GB of RAM to reduce cost. Previously, base models had 16 GB of system memory.