{"id":5182,"date":"2015-11-03T19:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2015-10-26T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:54:15","slug":"linked-microsoft-surface-book-review-so-good-i-might-switch-back-to-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/linked-microsoft-surface-book-review-so-good-i-might-switch-back-to-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “Microsoft Surface Book Review: So Good, I Might Switch Back to Windows”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an aspirational concept, both for users and for the company itself. Flatly, a $1500 laptop is never going to reach the bulk of Microsoft\u2019s customers, most of whom will probably use sub-$1000 Windows 10 machines from third-party manufacturers. But it\u2019s there as a totem, representing an idea anyone can buy into.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s why I consider this to be Microsoft\u2019s iMac moment. A lot of people will not only love this but also spend their hard-earned cash to buy a Surface Book. The majority of home-Windows users go to Staples and buy the cheapest notebook that they can and that\u2019s why tablets are selling so well. Sub $500 is a fantastic market and makes up the majority of personal computing devices sold from phones, tablets and laptops.<\/p>\n

Apple and Windows hardware ASP is starkly different but less so if you add in tablets (aka iPad clones). Microsoft is taking a chance and I respect them for it. If this thing didn\u2019t run Windows, I\u2019d be sold. Then again, that\u2019ll never happen. I think the Surface Book looks great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Gizmodo: It\u2019s an aspirational concept, both for users and for the company itself. Flatly, a $1500 laptop…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:10:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"b76409da-8d01-440b-8e93-6da9a11f2c1a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:10:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/At2QJ2o0BRAuOk22poR8sGg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1lA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2962,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/best-buy-sitting-on-a-pile-of-unsold-hp-tablets\/","url_meta":{"origin":5182,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 “Best Buy Sitting on a Pile of Unsold HP Tablets”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Somewebsite: According to one source who has seen internal\u00a0HP\u00a0reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory. 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