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Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3

Posted by samzenpus on from the try-ours-instead dept.

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.

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  1. Not even M$ wants the Surface Pro 3! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If all I had were a bunch of crappy Surface Pro 3 bricks running some terrible version of windows, I'd trade it *and* pay you for your MacBook Air, too!

    (written on a satisfied-customer's MacBook Air)

  2. Ha ha ha, replace State of Art for M$ crap by Jorge666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who sponsored your crappy hardware? M$oft. NSA again?
    Last thing we need is your calling home Pukeware Pro
    Try again but this time during Bingo for senior citizens. This is your target demographic.

  3. Re:Not likely. by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 0, Troll

    If "every Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, and HP" simply fell apart, it would probably be nationwide news.

    But it's not, because you're a liar.

    Do you enjoy telling untruths that you can't possibly be sure about? You are of course wrong.

    1) Asus: My daughter's chomebook. The power connector failed after 6 months.
    2) Lenovo: One with the screen you can turn around. The keyboard failed. Half the keys don't work. The battery became unusable over the same time frame.
    3) Toshiba: Generic laptop. It did literally fall apart. Things - panel covers, hole covers, keyboard buttons just gave up and fell off.
    4) HP: A work laptop. Battery connection became unreliable, causing the machine to power off randomly.

    5) Mac book air. Still working fine.
    6) Mac book pro. Still working fine.

    --
    I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.