Gadgetory

Microsoft has a new tiny little computer it's called the surface go you may have heard of it and it's ready to take on the iPad or maybe it's ready to take on Chromebooks or maybe it's just a really little surface pro you know what here's a question what is this thing designed to compete with all right so this is the surface go and as you can see it looks quite a lot like just a little tiny baby surface and pro now they're not exactly the same of course and I'm gonna get into the differences and before I get started I'm gonna say that this is not a review yet we've only had this thing for a couple of days but I do have some thoughts so let's start with the hardware now if you're familiar with the surface pro hardware you know exactly what to expect here it's just smaller but some of the edges are a little bit more curved which makes sense for how small this thing is it is a little bit thicker than an iPad pro which is kind of a bummer but it makes sense this is a full PC afterall the screen is 1800 by 1200 and it's nice but it feels I don't know a little bit cramped because the bezels are really huge to make space with Windows hello camera and also I don't know they're just really huge the kickstand it's great it's a standard surface kickstand it works at pretty much any angle and it can use it on your lap just fine in terms of ports the big one the one I'm most excited about is USB see hooray if you use an Android phone you can use that charger to charge this thing although it won't charge super quick with that you're better off using the charger that comes with it which uses this little surface connector now unfortunately this doesn't have a standard USB a port and the surface connector here doesn't have one on it either unlike on the surface pro which is a little bit of a bummer but whatever get a dongle there's also a micro SD card slot for expanding the storage which I'm really happy about and last but not least there is a headphone jack oh sorry there's a one more connector and that is the keyboard connector on the bottom for connecting it to the surface keyboards so we should talk about that as of the surface pro there is a surface type cover designed specifically for this computer you have to buy it separately though it's a hundred and thirty and it's designed for this thing which means that it's really really small just like this computer but Microsoft did a pretty good job making the keys go edge to edge so although it is a little bit cramped I got used to typing on it in just a couple of hours it's actually pretty much fine it has really good key travel much better than a MacBook and I like the touchpad it's not very big because this computer so small but it works really well and I haven't had any problems with it overall I really like this hardware but I have to admit that I have a soft spot for tiny computers and this is just a tiny little cute computer so you know I kind of love it build quality though it's really good the magnesium is solid and it might be a little bit more plastic II and it's finished than the surface pro but whatever it runs Windows 10 which means that it can do more than a Chromebook and you're probably able to be a little bit more productive than you could be on an iPad it's a little surface so cool we're done here where we're not done here no we got about talk we got to talk about price and specs because you know what that's where things get a little bit weird so the base model of the surface go costs 399 and for that you get an Intel gold four four one five Y processor it's a relatively new processor but it's also pretty low-end so you're not going to be able to do super intensive stuff on this thing it also comes with 64 gigs of storage and here's the issue only four gigs of ram which for most people isn't enough to do the stuff that they want to do on Windows now that Ram situation might not be that bad if you leave this thing in its default state which is running Windows 10s mode the version of Windows that can only run Windows Store apps but turning it off is really easy and I think most people do because you can't get the apps you want like Chrome one password and the Amazon Kindle app I have lots of feelings about s mode and there's not time to get into them in this video anyway I think most people are gonna want to get the upgraded version which costs 549 and comes with the same processor 128 gigs of storage and 8 gigs of RAM and that's the version I've been testing for the past day and for basic stuff it's actually been pretty fast and that Ram means that I can have a bunch of stuff open but that brings me back to the price the right surface go I think for most people is the upgraded model which costs again 550 bucks plus 130 for the keyboard that is 600 and dollars now accounting for the surface pen if you want that which costs an extra hundred bucks I'm not saying that I think this thing is too expensive I mean after all an iPad pro if the smart Keyboard starts at a little over eight hundred bucks and that's 680 you can get a pretty decent Windows laptop I feel like buying a computer in this price range it just turns out there's no easy answers the bottom line for me is buying this new kind of device in this price category is surprisingly complicated as a new kind of device at trying to do a new ish thing in computers I think the surface co is really intriguing but I do wonder if it kind of falls in this weird middle zone so okay I'm a middle child I don't know if you can tell and being a middle child sometimes kind of sucks the big kids get to do all the cool stuff and the little kids they get all the attention and the middle kids they just constantly have to prove themselves and the surface go it has to prove itself at the end of the day I do think the surface go Falls in a very similar category to the iPad Pro it could serve as your main computer but definitely not for everybody hey thanks so much for watching like I said I'm gonna be reviewing this thing so let me know in the comments what you'd like me to test I'll try and fit it into the review and one quick note sometime in the near future we're gonna take a break from making these episodes because I don't know little bit tired but I promise you we will be back