Saturday, February 23, 2013

Best Buy Offering $100 Off Windows 8 Touchscreen PCs

Best Buy is kicking off a two-week promotion this Sunday that will serve up $100 discounts on Windows 8 touchscreen PCs, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The discount doesn’t yet appear on the Best Buy site and the retailer didn’t immediately respond to PCMag’s request for further information on which products would be part of the promotion. It appears that Windows 8 tablets like Microsoft’s own Surface Pro won’t be included in the dealthe WSJ report stated that only touchscreen laptops and desktops would be discounted.

The promotion will run through March 7, according to the Verge.

Microsoft and Intel, the largest PC chip maker in the world, have been touting touchscreens for laptops and desktops, as well as hybrid devices that can function as both laptops and tablets, as necessary for PC makers to offer going forward. Tablets with touch-controlled interfaces like Apple’s iPad have in recent years cut into sales of traditional PCs, spurring Microsoft to optimize its latest operating system for touch.

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