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I have unabashedly loved the surface line the very first surface Pro I saw the potential but the product wasn't complete every surface Pro since then I have happily recommended I even loved the second gen surface book a little bit wishy-washy when it came to the surface laptop but now we've got the latest in the surface line the teeny-tiny $399 surface go I don't like it and beyond that I cannot recommend it here's why so before I jump into to this thing and why you shouldn't buy it Church the subscribe button and hit that Bell to think you get notified when new videos are coming we got a ton more awesome stuff coming your way so the failure with the surface go isn't necessarily with the surface hardware itself a lot of responsibility lies with Windows 10 it's not a very good tablet because Windows 10 isn't the best in tablet form it's not the best laptop comebacker top had to cut a lot of corners to get it to that 399 price point it's just not good and generally anything when you look at what this is gonna cost this set up that I have right here with the Alcantara keyboard gonna cost another 130 bucks you can get a cheaper one for $100 so the least expensive way you can surface go with the keyboard is $500 when you're looking to spend 500 bucks you're looking at like a discount Lenovo yoga category you're looking at Chromebooks you're looking at a lot of options in a really crowded space and I can't see why anybody would buy the surface go so not recommending the surface code doesn't mean there aren't things here to like first the 10-inch pixel send screen is really good electro visibility is surprisingly solid viewing angles are great colors looks vibrant blacks look black things are a little bit smaller because the size but it's a really good screen and hidden in that awesome screen is actually the Windows hello which I absolutely love that is one of the best features for me of Windows 10 it's unlocked into thing with my face and also surprisingly not crappy the speaker's I would didn't have high expectations here but they're pretty decent I like the addition of USB type-c on here you can charge it via USB type-c or you can use the surface connector which I believe is just USB see like stretched out but you have options I like to make ourselves give you the ability to have both of those ports battery life here is also incredible Microsoft says to get about nine ish hours but very rarely to actually hit that mark I easily got six to seven hours of battery life on my usage you can easily extend that farther turn the brightness down and you turn Wi-Fi off if you want to watch movies on an airplane you'll be fine for an easy cross-country flight if you do up to spend money for the keyboard it's also pretty nice too Microsoft does an incredible job there attachable keyboards the trackpad is glass it's got the precision drivers in it it works really well it is shrunken down so the tractor like I said is easy to use the keyboard took awhile for me to get used to because the keys are way smaller but there's decent key throw and they feel if you'll click E and clacking it's also gonna work with the surface pen I'm not a big pen user but I get tested it works like any other service device the last thing that's really good about the surface go that's good with all surface tablets is the hinge is awesome Microsoft coined the incredibly stupid term lap ability but it is an actual thing that works you can put on your lap the hinge goes to ten different directions it can stop anywhere you want have to wait since certain stop points it's really good I guess their credit - you also have expandable storage via microSD so you can always up that emmc storage if you want to alright so that's pretty much all the good things with the surface go here's why you should not buy it so let's start with s mode Microsoft is shipping the surface go with s mode you can call it Windows RT whatever you want they've tried this in the past essentially what it means you can only use apps you can download from the Windows Store which in theory should be pretty good in practical use they're not that many apps it's also gonna mean you're gonna be stuck using Windows edge if you want to use Chrome you are out of luck now Microsoft credit though you can get it out of s smooth doing it for free for the early days of a surface go or hopefully look send that to longer don't have to reboot to get out of best mode but once you are out of SM you start to see the real limitations of that Pentium Gold processor I'm a big chrome user I don't want to be stuck using edge this thing got bogged down with three tabs open up just normal websites if you rely on Chrome really heavily this is not the computer for you you better I spend that money towards Chromebook 40 and because it's a full-fledged computer you get out of s mode you might want to do normal computer things aside from just browsing the web usually when you've got these hybrid computers you're generally being powered by core i5 used to be the sweet spot for what manufacturer putting their computers this is using a lower end Pentium Gold processor and it's not as horrible as it expect obviously it's not gonna be great for gaming we knew that going in but we wanted to see if it could handle some games even on like crazy low settings couldn't run pub G it couldn't run fortnight's out of luck they're just for fun we tried to run Premiere Pro no surprise it couldn't run that it did work a Photoshop though but it was a little on the slow side so you can sort of do computing but not computing that well that's again my issue with it at this price point you can get an i-5 that can play like games that can also do some like video editing that can also do Photoshop you have to make a lot of compromises to get into this surface go so the model we're testing is the entry-level 399 bucks complete with 64 gigs of emmc storage not even full SSD stores you can spec it up then becomes even more ridiculous of a buy we're gonna spend more money you can get in last gen surface pro you can buy a ton of lenovo's Dell you can get a real computer that's good at actual computer things and mix servers go even more ridiculous the more money you decide to spend on the surface go is like a jack-of-all-trades but a master of none probably its primary competition I would imagine are gonna be Chromebooks and iPads the new nine point seven inch iPad starts at 329 if you want to go to hunt rent gigs of storage that's for twenty nine you are still less than you are at the surface go with the keyboard and even then you get the same level of productivity pretty close that you'd get with something like this I don't know who would buy this I don't know why you would buy this get a surface pro instead if you want the form factor it's not a very good tablet and it's not a very good computer I cannot recommend the surface go to anybody so I know it was a little harsh on the surface ago I recommend a lot of products I think are good products and I would put my own money behind and I bought this myself Microsoft didn't send this one to check out I was really optimistic like I said I love the surface line of products no I just I cannot recommend to you most excites for and I review a product I tend to think of this is demographic that would like this this isn't really good for anybody but what do you guys think do you disagree with me did you buy a surface go and you're like John you are so off-base if you are gonna argue make a point what is this good for how are you using it and why did you believe the money you spent was well spent for a surface go I generally want to know cuz I don't see it with this thing I know I hope you guys enjoyed until next time I'm John Brennan you're from TechnoBuffalo probably gonna back this thing up and send it back you