{"id":646004,"date":"2013-03-08T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=364587"},"modified":"2013-03-08T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:19:03","slug":"windows-8-laptops-are-getting-cheaper-will-consumers-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646004","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 laptops are getting cheaper \u2014 will consumers bite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/windows-8-discounts-364587\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/bgr-surface-pro-1.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 Discounts\" title=\"Microsoft Surface\" \/><\/a><\/center>Earlier this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324178904578343163162251042.html\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) was offering its manufacturing partners a discount on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> licensing fees. The reduced cost will likely help manufacturers offer lower priced Windows 8 laptops. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20130307PD206.html\">According to <em>Digitimes<\/em><\/a>, prices of Windows 8-powered touchscreen notebooks are expected to drop at least 10%, while some entry-level models could drop as much as 20%. Touchscreen laptops currently account for about 10% of all notebook sales, however the reduced prices are expected to increase sales to account for more than 20% in the second quarter. The new &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; for touchscreen notebooks is said to be around $500, although it will still likely take some time before consumers fully embrace the new operating system.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/tlaQ79yXbH8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft (MSFT) was offering its manufacturing partners a discount on Windows 8 licensing fees. The reduced cost will likely help manufacturers offer lower priced Windows 8 laptops. According to Digitimes, prices of Windows 8-powered touchscreen notebooks are expected to drop at least 10%, while some entry-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}