When a well-known manufacturer, positioning itself in the smartphone industry, produces everything in a row, questions arise. As a leader in phone manufacturing, Nokia demonstrates its hopelessness to the world. Failures with smartphone releases, televisions at fantastically inflated prices. Now – laptops. The brand is clearly trying to stay afloat. Only repeatedly targeting the expensive price segment.
Nokia Purebook S14 Laptop with Intel Core 11th Generation
The brand will even suffer a failure here. At least because it based it on an old chipset and inflated the price to astronomical levels. Even Nokia fans were shocked by such a move into the unknown. All normal brands are waiting in anticipation for the presentation of Intel 12th generation chips. Many already have solutions (definitely Asus and MSI). But, for obvious reasons, it is not allowed to present the new product before Intel.
Buy the Nokia Purebook S14 laptop for $740. The debut took place in India. Considering the complete absence of queues for the new product, it is not yet certain that it will appear on the global market. But still. There is nothing surprising for the buyer:
- Core i5 family processor.
- 8 or 16 GB RAM.
- NVMe SSD 512 GB storage.
- 14-inch FullHD IPS display.
The Nokia Purebook S14 laptop is clearly not worth its listed price. It will easily be overshadowed by “old-timers” like ASUS Vivobook S14 or HP 14s. Yes, Nokia has advantages such as Iris Xe graphics and Windows 11 out of the box. But this is a budget segment. Gaming qualities or super-modern operating systems are not needed here. And paying an extra $100 for all this “happiness” makes no sense.
Moreover, what do we know about Nokia’s warranty obligations? That smartphone owners are banging their heads against store doors and cannot get proper service. Companies like MSI, Asus, HP, DELL have several service centers even in suburbs.
Until the Nokia brand masters the budget segment and shows itself better there, there is no point in jumping over the $500 mark. 21st-century buyers are used to paying for a “service + support” package. And Nokia is a newcomer here, with a lottery ticket, possibly from an unsuccessful batch.
