Google says Apple and Microsoft make awful laptops and softwareĪ new ad for the Chromebook suggests Redmond and Cupertino are a touch incompetent. If portability is important to you, and your workloads are primarily productivity based, the small but mighty Surface Go should be on your shortlist. In fact, it's the best cheap PC I've ever used, especially when connected to desktop peripherals with a USB Type-C dock. The bottom line is this is a real PC in a highly portable package. Because I've had this device in hand for less than 72 hours, it's impossible to get definitive numbers on battery life, but based on my informal tests I estimate this device should last for 5 to 7 hours of steady productivity work, which is effectively all day for anyone who isn't chained to their keyboard. Microsoft claims that the Surface Go will play video nonstop for 9 hours. It's also a good enough tablet, capable of playing movies and music and browsing websites as well as an iPad, although it lacks the deep selection of apps for iOS. But for mainstream productivity work and casual gaming, it's more than good enough. I wouldn't count on this configuration to do heavy video editing or run a demanding game at maximum FPS. This is, of course, not a gaming PC or a professional workstation. That means some letterboxing when you watch an HD movie, but it also makes working with side-by-side windows easier than on a 16:9 display. The display resolution of 1800x1200 keeps the signature 3:2 aspect ratio of the rest of the Surface family. (There's no guarantee that performance of the lower-spec machine will be as good, especially with that slower eMMC storage.) Graphics performance was surprisingly good, even when I connected the Surface Go to a large external monitor.Īlso: Can Microsoft's Surface Go unseat Apple's iPad? In fact, it felt downright zippy on every productivity task I threw at it. Performance-wise, if you're concerned about the ability of that Pentium Gold CPU to keep up, you can relax. I loaded the system up with an assortment of entertainment and productivity software from the Microsoft Store, including Office 365, Spotify, iTunes, Netflix, and the Twitter app. If you find the typing experience with Surface Pro awkward, you'll probably have the same objection to the Surface Go. Of course, the Surface Go has the same "lappability" concerns as its older, larger sibling.
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