[Microsoft Store] [Meta] Microsoft Store Canada Black Friday sneak preview is up

RandomSanity wrote: ↑ No deals on the Surface Pro 7? Odd.

GateGuardian wrote: ↑ It's already $300 off now, so I'm assuming they are keeping the same deal. Wish they offered a better deal though as I'm in need of a new Surface Pro.

My Surface Pro 3 hard drive died and I can't find anyone who can replace them.. plus Microsoft wants $500 to trade it in for a used one, which is a pretty bad deal.

jdossantos wrote: ↑ It doesn't look like there are any great deals. Regardless, thanks for posting OP.

elgros4 wrote: ↑ Asus TUF FX505DT-WB72 for 799 seem a good deal to me.

StewieGriffith wrote: ↑ i need a gamer's input. How good is this computer and price? I am considering buying this for my son. He plays mostly online games (lol) with friends

Thanks in advance!

Yudhishthira wrote: ↑ 799 is a solid price. The GTX 1650 graphics card is good for most games especially with that screen. It is a “good enough” unit and especially in that price range you will not be able to get much more from what I’ve seen. New GPUs might get a bit more performance but their release date is currently unknown.

StewieGriffith wrote: ↑ i need a gamer's input. How good is this computer and price? I am considering buying this for my son. He plays mostly online games (lol) with friends

Thanks in advance!

Bustincapps wrote: ↑ I think the deal is just OK. I have a similar model with the Ryzen 3 3550h I bought last year for from the MS store for $550 due to a pricing error. I think they forgot to convert the currency from $550 US to CAD. For $800 on sale I feel like the price has not really dropped despite being over a year old and new updated models came out a few months ago. But this might also reflect Covid pricing.

This laptop does run hot. The cpu can hit 90c + (which is below the 105c limit) despite redoing thermal paste.

With 8GB RAM only 6GB is available due to the integrated GPU reserving 2GB. You may need to upgrade the RAM with another 8GB stick to get the system to run in dual channel for better gaming performance.

The 256GB m2 SSD is fine for the OS but I did install an extra SATA SSD for games. 256GB can easily be filled given the size of modern AAA games.

There is no quick access to the RAM and SATA slot so full removal of the bottom part of the chassis is required if you decide to make any of those upgrades.

This laptop will run new AAA games at medium to high GFX settings.

elgros4 wrote: ↑ the product has : 'NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 with 4 GB dedicated graphics memory'

Bustincapps wrote: ↑ I think the deal is just OK. I have a similar model with the Ryzen 3 3550h I bought last year for from the MS store for $550 due to a pricing error. I think they forgot to convert the currency from $550 US to CAD. For $800 on sale I feel like the price has not really dropped despite being over a year old and new updated models came out a few months ago. But this might also reflect Covid pricing.

This laptop does run hot. The cpu can hit 90c + (which is below the 105c limit) despite redoing thermal paste.

With 8GB RAM only 6GB is available due to the integrated GPU reserving 2GB. You may need to upgrade the RAM with another 8GB stick to get the system to run in dual channel for better gaming performance.

The 256GB m2 SSD is fine for the OS but I did install an extra SATA SSD for games. 256GB can easily be filled given the size of modern AAA games.

There is no quick access to the RAM and SATA slot so full removal of the bottom part of the chassis is required if you decide to make any of those upgrades.

This laptop will run new AAA games at medium to high GFX settings.

Bustincapps wrote: ↑ Yes this model has both a dedicated GTX 1650 and an AMD Ryzen™ 7 3750H Mobile Processor with Radeon™ RX Vega 10 Graphics. During gaming the laptop will use the GTX 1650. For lighter GPU tasks the laptop will use the integrated Vega graphics on the CPU which uses 2GB of system RAM that can not be unallocated.