{"id":16596,"date":"2016-12-12T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16596"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:08:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:08:49","slug":"mac-users-switching-to-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/mac-users-switching-to-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Users Switching to Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/devices\/2016\/12\/12\/wonderful-time-year-surface\/\">Brian Hall<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/12\/12\/macbook-pro-disappointment-switching-surface\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/12\/12\/microsoft-calls-new-macbook-pro-disappointment\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13159195\">Hacker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13158605\">News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/devices\/2016\/12\/12\/wonderful-time-year-surface\/\"><p>Our team gets so excited about meeting new Surface users and hearing their feedback, and we get to meet a lot more this holiday season! From Surface Pro, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-surface-book-performance-base-review-2016-11\">Surface Book<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/11\/17\/13663112\/microsoft-surface-studio-review\">Surface Studio<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/microsoft-surface-hub\/en-us\">Surface Hub<\/a>, we&rsquo;re having our best holiday ever.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation of Surface coupled with the disappointment of the new MacBook Pro &#8211; especially among professionals &#8211; is leading more and more people to make the switch to Surface, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/commentary\/350181\/why-i-left-macos-for-a-surface-book\">like this<\/a>. It seems like a new review recommending Surface over MacBook comes out daily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13159430\">johnernaut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13159430\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m one of the people that switched from a MacBook Pro to the new Surface Book.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>entire<\/em> experience was dreadful for me.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As far as the actual product goes - I found the trackpad to be lacking. It just <em>felt<\/em> a bit buggy and non-responsive at times. I have yet to find a trackpad as solid as the ones that Apple ship. This became more apparent of time after using the product. Aside from the trackpad I don&rsquo;t have too many complaints, except for things that are of personal preference (I can&rsquo;t say I like the design \/ functionality of the snake hinge). I also realized, as mainly a pro user, that I don&rsquo;t have much use \/ need for the touch screen or tablet portion of the device.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hall (9to5Mac, MacRumors, Hacker News): Our team gets so excited about meeting new Surface users and hearing their feedback, and we get to meet a lot more this holiday season! From Surface Pro, to Surface Book, to Surface Studio, to Surface Hub, we&rsquo;re having our best holiday ever.[&#8230;]More people are switching from Macs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,100,37,785,1150,219],"class_list":["post-16596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-surface","tag-trackpad","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}