Microsoft raises prices of some PCs by up to £400 due to Brexit
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#2CW81)
Move follows Apple and Sonos rises, with cost of Surface and Surface Book computers increasing by 15%
Microsoft has increased the price of its Surface and Surface Book computers in the UK by more than 15%, or 400 for some models, due to sterling's drop in the value post-EU referendum.
The price increase comes in the wake of similar moves by Sonos and twice by Apple, which saw the cost of computers, speakers and apps rise by as much as 25% adjusting for the falling value of sterling against the dollar, in which Microsoft and other US technology firms do their accounting.
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