Junior fingers aren’t sure to notice or care, but don’t go in expecting the same firm keys you can expect out of the standard Surface Laptop, or even the excellent Surface Book series.īasically, it’s good and easily workable, but not the best of the range. Sure, it’s a comfy enough keyboard, but you can tell the travel needs a little bit of work, both on the keys and the mouse, which are equally shallow. You can get used to the screen if you have to, though, and it’s much the same with the keyboard and mouse.
It actually feels cheap and pixelated, with its only saving grace being viewing angles which aren’t problematic and the fact that it’s still a touchscreen. That’s not the screen size itself that’s the problem, though rather, it’s the resolution, which offers a paltry 1536×1048, a low resolution with an equally low pixel clarity of 148 ppi.Įven though the 12 inch screen of the Surface Laptop Go offers touch control like other Surface computers, this screen doesn’t feel as high end as those. 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. 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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