There's a decent amount of key travel, like all the Surface covers, and it attaches to the tablet easily with magnets. It'll take a bit of getting used to, but after working on the Go 2 for an hour, my fingers quickly adapted. The Type Cover remains a fantastic little keyboard, even if it's a bit cramped. That's why I'm particularly annoyed the base model hasn't improved much - I know how limiting a Pentium Gold CPU can be. As soon as I started browsing the web, building up my usual pile of tabs, I could immediately feel the speed difference from the original Go. It also had built-in LTE, but I wasn't able to test that out in time for this review. Our review model, conveniently enough, was the highest-end $730 Surface Go 2, which had a Core m3 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Microsoft Surface Go (Intel Pentium Gold)ĭell XPS 13 (2020, Core i7-1065G7, Iris Plus) Microsoft Surface Go 2 (Core m3-8100Y, Intel UHD) (If you've read any of my previous Surface reviews, you'll know this is a hill I'm prepared to die on.) Maybe throw in a Type Cover? Because nobody should buy this thing (or any Surface for that matter) without a keyboard. But Microsoft could have made the base Surface Go 2 a bit more compelling by bundling it with an accessory. I get it: Trying to spec out a $400 tablet is tough.

It also has the advantage of being built for a mobile OS instead of Windows. In comparison, Apple’s $329 iPad is equipped with a Fusion A10 processor, a remnant from the iPhone 7 that’s still pretty zippy today 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.

It's still equipped with a lowly Pentium Gold CPU (though it's at least based on a newer chip architecture) it still has a meager 4GB of RAM and there's only 64GB of sluggish eMMC storage. The larger screen is certainly nice to have, but the overall experience on the $400 base model hasn't changed at all over the past two years. I can't imagine Microsoft would completely redesign the Surface Go after its debut, but it would have been nice to see more of a push forward.

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