When I first told people that I was switching from my MacBook Air to a Surface they thought I was joking. For 5 years I have been the proud owner of a MacBook Pro and then a MacBook Air and vehemently defended all things Apple. Slowly the glamour of Apple's services weaned off and I realized that Apple wasn't as innovative as it seemed to be on the outside. Services such as iCloud didn't work properly, updates to OSX didn't improve things but slowed my computer down. Slowly I made the switch from Apple's services to Google. They had the advantage of being free and top notch quality. What followed was the hardware. I first switched from an iPhone to the Nexus 4 because there simply wasn't anything better for the price. Then a few weeks after starting my degree I sold my iPad and replaced it with the Nexus 7. Yet I still had my MacBook and blindly defended MacBooks as the best computers out there.

I hadn't actually been looking to switch systems. It just came by itself. Windows 8 intrigued me from the start but being the strong Apple owner that I had been I pushed it out of my consciousness. Then after a while it slowly came back. I realized that touch was more intuitive but it just didn't exist on the platform that I was except for the iPad and iPhone. So I started doing my research looking for articles about Windows 8. Especially important to me was apps. The one app I can't live without is Evernote. When I saw what Evernote touch was I started to become convinced. The way Windows 8 was implemented in the Surface, combining real computing with the portability, was also interesting to me.

On top of all that I felt the need to try something new. I had gone through all things Apple and had completely lost touch with everything else. Switching to Android had shown me what else was out there but I still felt like it wasn’t complete.

With that I decided to sell the MacBook that I had and use that money buy a Surface Pro 2. The one question I get asked the most is why I would even think of switching from Apple to Microsoft.

First some context. I'm a graduate student doing a communications degree. Nearly everybody on my course has a MacBook and everybody definitely has an iPhone. So having anything other than that makes you the tech outsider. On top of that I'm a self confessed tech geek.

Having used Apple's OSX for the past five years I came to enjoy the simplicity after Windows Vista forced me to leave the Microsoft ecosystem. I still do enjoy it and recommend it to anybody who doesn't want to tinker with technology. You just push a button and everything is ready. Yet I still switched.