
The unit that Microsoft sent us for review is the middle-of-the-road one with an Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y processor, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of eMMC for storage. The lack of performance, at least for some of the cheaper models, is a real bugbear, even though you expect some compromises at this price.

Unfortunately, what held me up from buying the earlier Surface Go still evident in the latest version. So, when the new Surface Go 3 emerged in recent weeks, I was expecting a nice update. PHOTO: Alfred SiewĪs home-based learning became common earlier this year, I began looking at the Surface Go 2 laptop-cum-tablet as an affordable and portable machine for my daughter.

