[codedinosaur]

From what I've been seeing from the way they sell and price their other surface devices, and according to some bloggers, MS just wants to set a reference for other manufacturers to make Windows devices. They seem to price their products intentionally higher so that they don't cannibalize Dell, Lenovo, HP and others. Don't know whether it is a good strategy or not, but that's how they are approaching all their in-house Windows devices

[ktta]

I doubt that's the case anymore. With Chromebook Pixel, it was understandable because it was plain as day.

In this case, it looks like they put in a lot of effort into design and the overall effort seems to show that they do want these laptops to be sold.