With a screen size of 12.4 inches in the slightly unusual 3:2 aspect ratio, you’ll find the display is nice to look at, though can feel a little small. There are a total of four ports on the Surface Laptop Go, with one USB Type C, one USB Type A (the rectangular one), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and Microsoft’s proprietary Surface Connect port, though it can be charged through either the Surface Connect or the USB Type C port. That comes in a computer with Bluetooth 5, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax WiFi 6, as well as a 720p camera at the front, two microphones, and a keyboard with a fingerprint sensor found on the power key in the keyboard. Intel’s 10th-gen Core i5 (1035G1) appears on the Surface Laptop Go, along with either 4GB or 8GB RAM, and either 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB storage. Inside that smaller Surface Laptop, there’s one specific breed of chip, and then a choice of hardware options depending on how much you want to spend. It’s not a combination of materials that’s exactly equal to the other Surface models, with an aluminium base and plastic up top, but it’s a nice enough design that’s comfortable enough, for sure. Microsoft’s smaller take on the Surface Laptop 3 means the design will borrow from that template, and it sure does, with a sloped undercarriage connecting to the lid, all in a design that fits comfortable on your lap.

Rather than replicate the tablet variety of the Surface, the idea is to make a smaller version of the Surface Laptop, another of Microsoft’s nice computers.Ī little smaller and a little lower priced, is the Surface Laptop Go really a pint-sized piece of that PC, or is it just an attempt at cost cutting gone awry? Design Now Microsoft is trying it again, but with a different design.

There’s a new breed of small laptop for Microsoft, and it continues what the company tried in the Surface Go, a tiny take on the Surface Pro, which was actually a solid little device.īack in the Surface Go, we loved what Microsoft was trying to do, and really yearned for a little more power and a newer screen with slimmer bezels, small issues for what was basically a small notebook without the keyboard that you could get for $839. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop has been a comfy middle ground between the Surface Pro tablet and the workstation Surface Book, but the pint-sized “Go” edition might be a cost-cut too far.

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