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Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3
mpicpp writes with news about a new Microsoft trade-in program to encourage sales of the new Surface Pro 3. Microsoft is offering a limited time Surface Pro 3 promotion via which users can get up to $650 in store credit for trading in certain Apple MacBook Air models. The new promotion, running June 20 to July 31, 2014 -- "or while supplies last" -- requires users to bring MacBook Airs into select Microsoft retail stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. (The trade-in isn't valid online.)...To get the maximum ($650) value, users have to apply the store credit toward the purchase of a Surface Pro 3, the most recent model of the company's Intel-based Surface tablets.
They'll do anything to pick them up cheaply, even trade some unwanted Surface 3's for some!
Jokes aside (and please don't mod for flamebait, it's sarcasm above, downmod for a bad joke if anything) ...
I don't think will go much. You're assuming that someone values their $1000+ dollar MacBook Air at $650 and values the Surface at something worth the discount. Considering the amount of work you'd have to do to migrate (either Windows to Mac, or Mac to Windows) you have to think about 200-300 realistically for swapping costs. Makes good headlines (as we see here) but won't help much.
"While supplies last." That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
>It's a laptop that happens to have a detachable keyboard.
Well, duh. Every Windows tablet is a laptop with a detachable keyboard.
Well, duh! Every observation is obvious when you're repeating it with the words "Well, duh!" in front of it. Let's face it, everybody knows that. Aren't you glad you contributed to the thread?
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I'll give you $5 for your $20 bill!
I think I'm going to like this new MS CEO...
Wow, it seems even Microsoft would rather have Apple's product than their own.
I am literally 3000 tokens away from the chaotic crossbow --Stephen
Here recently I run by the store on the way home to pick up some milk. Was in a rush and left my Surface Pro on the front seat, in plain view.
When I came out, I discovered someone had broken into my car and left three more Surface Pro's :(
Microsoft is desperate. How can you tell?
I think the explanation is obvious: Microsoft employees want those nice shiny MBAs, but because they don't have the money anymore, they want to barter for them with those SPs lying in their warehouses. ;-)
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Hey, every newspaper has its funnies section, why shouldn't /.?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...Ford is offering a rebate on a new Fiesta (with power locks and windows!) for anybody willing to trade in their Tesla Model S.
Apple commercials show people doing actual useful things with their gear. MS commercials show people magically dancing through time and space with their gear.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Yeah, vomiting, for instance. That's both intuitive and awful. ;-)
Therefore, Surface is like vomiting. :-P
(Cheap humor only folks, I've never actually even seen one.)
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