Like other members of the Surface family, this newest model isn't necessarily for everyone. If, however, you're willing to spend a little extra to treat your fingertips to a fantastic keyboard and trackpad, or on elevated industrial design that looks and feels a cut above that of most similarly-priced notebooks, the Surface Laptop Go makes more sense.

As it is, I feel like you have to accept spending at least $700 to get a notebook with sufficient headroom for Windows 10, and that in turn could get you better-spec'd (but less visually pleasing) alternatives from Windows OEMs, or indeed a couple of Chromebooks with more than enough power for day to day school or office tasks. Had the $550 model come with even just 128GB of SSD rather than underwhelming eMMC storage, it would've been much more convincing. Get it on sale and dont expect too much.On that front, the Surface Laptop Go rises somewhat to the challenge, but it's not a clean sweep. A 13in mba is a whole inch wider, the tiny new xps 13 is still. Yea its alot slower than cheaper 13in laptops but those are noticeably wider. Its honestly not that bad if you're looking for a decent laptop under 13in, and its really the only one on the market.

What the Laptop Go 2 is, though, is a small, lightweight computer with a comfortable keyboard, trackpad, and screen, wrapped in a nice-looking and -feeling package.

With my standard workload and the screen set to about 200 nits, I averaged less than five hours of use between charges. Despite its small size and weight, the Laptop Go 2 is not a fanless computer, and its small fan is audible and often annoying.īattery life is perhaps the biggest problem I have with the Surface Laptop Go 2, however.

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