The real main drawback to the Surface Go is the price. USB battery packs are a vital travel accessory, and because the Go can charge via its USB-C, you can use one to extend its life by several more hours. Then there’s the most important aspect to any travel laptop, one that the Surface Go has but most laptops don’t: the ability to charge via an external battery. If you put it in airplane mode and turn down the screen brightness, you’ll probably get most of a day out of it, no problem. This one is more like 6, which is still pretty solid. I was able to get 10 hours or more out of my old laptops. The only place where the Surface Go isn’t as good as those lower-end “craptops” is in battery life. Still, for an inexpensive laptop that’s pretty impressive. For instance, it can (slowly) load Sea of Thieves and play it… at 540p resolution at around 25fps. While you won’t be using this as a gaming device, that does mean it can do more than you might expect. A crucial component is it actually has an dedicated graphics processor. It does take a little while to load bigger programs, like Photoshop. This is slow, there’s no doubt about that. Under the hood is a 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y. The keyboard is smaller than normal, but still easy to type on.
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