--- description: Microsoft is offering up to $650 toward the purchase of the new Surface Pro 3 to customers that trade in a MacBook Air. title: Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Gets Big Discount for MacBook Air Trade-In image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc33bccba6beba2e/6986991513c79f606b192ca1/surface-pro.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Microsoft Is Giving Apple Users Hundreds To Buy the Surface Pro 3 by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 24, 2014 6:58 PM CUT  The Microsoft Corp. Surface Pro 3 tablet computer is displayed during an event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. The Microsoft Corp. Surface Pro 3 tablet computer is displayed during an event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, May 20, 2014.Jin Lee/Bloomberg—Getty Images by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 24, 2014 6:58 PM CUT Microsoft is once again throwing huge sums of money at customers to try to convince them to buy its products. The company is offering up to $650 toward the purchase of its new Surface Pro 3 to customers that trade in a MacBook Air that’s in decent condition. The deal, which runs through July 31, is only available in Microsoft’s physical retail stores. The Surface Pro 3 has been billed by Microsoft as a true laptop-tablet hybrid. That Microsoft is targeting the MacBook Air rather than the iPad with the new promotion indicates the company believes its new product can go toe-to-toe with laptops in terms of functionality. Even in the best-case scenario where a customer gets the full $650 deal (the actual discount depends on the model of MacBook and its working condition), the cheapest model of the Surface Pro 3, at $799, will still require $150 out of pocket. MacBook Airs start a bit pricier at $899, but the base model has 128GB of internal memory compared to the entry-level Surface Pro 3’s 64GB. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2918131/microsoft-surface-pro-3-discount/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2918131/microsoft-surface-pro-3-discount/"},"headline":"Microsoft Is Giving Apple Users Hundreds To Buy the Surface Pro 3","datePublished":"2014-06-24T18:58:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:37.366Z","description":"Microsoft is offering up to $650 toward the purchase of the new Surface Pro 3 to customers that trade in a MacBook Air.","url":"https://time.com/2918131/microsoft-surface-pro-3-discount/","keywords":["Tech","Apple","Tablets","Microsoft","laptops","deals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc33bccba6beba2e/6986991513c79f606b192ca1/surface-pro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc33bccba6beba2e/6986991513c79f606b192ca1/surface-pro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Microsoft Surface Pro 3","caption":"Microsoft Surface Pro 3","creditText":"Jin Lee/Bloomberg—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2918131/microsoft-surface-pro-3-discount/","name":"Microsoft Is Giving Apple Users Hundreds To Buy the Surface Pro 3"}}]}] ```