Surface + Xbox One Bundle Deal
Microsoft has announced a great deal for all students, faculty and educational institution employees who purchase a Surface Book or Surface Pro 4 on or before August 14, 2016.
Surface + Xbox One Bundle for Students Starting at $878, Save up to $499
Includes:
Your choice of Surface Book or Surface Pro 4
Xbox One console, plus extra Xbox One controller
Free select game of choice
$50 Microsoft Store gift code
•Student validation required to purchase
•Preorder items not available with this bundle
This great deal can be found here, at the Microsoft Store.
It looks like pretty much anyone qualifies: Only available to K-12, higher education students, parents purchasing on behalf of students, education institution employees, faculty, staff, school board and PTA/PTO executives for K-12 and higher education institutions
Yeah. They listed all of our schools
Even our schools are listed surprisingly.
When I configure on their website the cheapest I can get it with the lowest price Surface Pro 4 comes to $978. It says starting at $878, but I don’t see how to get it down to that price. The deal is pretty good, though since you end up with two controllers and a $50 card, which I assume you can use towards buying games.
$1407 for the SP4 with 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, Xbox One Bundle, Extra controller, Free Game, $50 Gift Card, and Type Cover. If I didn’t already have a laptop, I think this would be a really interesting deal.
I see a surface pro 4 for $659, regular price on that alone is $899
It’s $898 with that surface, xbox one + extras and the crew video game.
It says a Savings of $498
I didn’t see that one.
Ok, missed that one I see it now.
It seems that there is some cost for the Xbox one.
Interesting deal. I don’t really want an Xbox one though.
Yeah, only worth it if you didn’t have one and wanted one also.
Best Buy has that surface for $799, just for the machine, so this bundle at $898 is not a bad deal.
So it’s $100 to get an Xbox, extra controller, 2 games and a $50 gift card
Yeah, that’s pretty good – if one were in the market…
Xbox One S is already out (pre-order), and a new Surface Pro will probably be out soon too. This seems like a pretty good inventory clearing deal.
I don’t know what I value the Xbox one at
There is a new ps4 coming out that supports 4K
The Xbox One S supports 4K viewing and HDR gaming.
So this is to clear out inventory.
The Blu Ray Player in the Xbox One S is a Ultra HD Blu-Ray player which I think are pretty expensive right now as stand alone units.
And its only $299 in base config.
Going cheap with the surface makes it interesting too. Makes the free Xbox a much higher percentage.
Wonder if Best Buy would match. They have a college coupon for money off a surface as well.
You know – they just might match. They seem real liberal on the matching – at least when I have matched before.
There might be BB coupons for moving on the surface also – I don’t remember.
I wonder if the Xbox does anything worthwhile other than playing games
Doesn’t seem like it right now – everything is always in the future with them. You should know – you have one.
I don’t have an Xbox one
Oh geez, I totally thought you had one also…
No. Xbox 360
Seems like if you are into the whole Xbox thing then it is cool when mixed with Windows 10. I’m not really into it and I haven’t read much about it. Sounds like they have made a lot of changes since the intro to make it more useful. The system lacked so many features when it was released that it really turned me off. At the time, I thought I might get one if it would have done a lot of the Media Center type things – but it didn’t seemed to do anything that I found useful.
From what Paul says about the Xbox One, it is a huge noisy power hungry beast.
Sounds like the Xbox 360
The newer version seems like it might be a good upgrade and it does 4K, which seems like the right way to go.
They were saying that the HDR gaming looks really great.
I like the ps4. It would have to be really cheap or free to take on an Xbox at this point for me, or have a feature that ps4 doesn’t that I want.
Xbox one has some integration with live tv, but I have never used it. You would connect your satellite to the Xbox one and then Xbox one to the tv.
I think it adds an overlay with stats over sports games.
And fantasy sports stats.
It seems like a waste. They keep on promising features and then turning away from it.
Like this: https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/xbox-one/67839/xbox-one-tv-dvr-functionality-now-hold-microsoft-says
If they would implement something like that, I would find more value in the whole thing.
The people in the comments were pretty pissed about them not providing that feature.