not yet but the smoke is filling the room.
Yes, not in the materials for the packaging (well, yes,but that's negligible) but specially transport (more space needed for a unit, less units in each cargo container) and storage (for the same reason)Size of the packaging can play a (little) role in the price too I think.
I was wondering that too
We'll just have to add ray-tracing later lol
Seems like Microsofts core business is software and services. What's the thinking behind people would assuming that they wouldn't have the more mature development tools and the resources to support them?