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what's going on guys it's ravage consumer and I'm sure everyone's heard of Microsoft surface products but they've added a new one to the line called a surface go now the surface go looks like it belongs in the surface pro lineup but in a much smaller body which makes it really interesting this thing's got a ten inch screen it's super lightweight it has a keyboard option so you can use it like a full-blown laptop or a tablet ten inches that is tiny this thing fits in all the tablet compartments in my backpacks great for portability thus the name surface go and this thing's been getting a ton of buzz if you follow tech on social media or read any tech blogs but I got my hands on it a bit early specimen time with it and here are my thoughts and like I said this thing looks like a surface pro but in a much smaller more compact body and with a smaller body like this we're of course not gonna expect the same kind of power you get from a surface pro line but I found that with my time with it it was able to handle a lot of the tasks that I do at it pretty well and I think Microsoft is gearing this towards students if you take a look at when it was announced and when it's going to be released which is today it's right in time for back-to-school not to mention those folks who just want a Productivity device that they can pretty much take with them anywhere and I think that's probably one of the most compelling things about this device you can get the full-blown Windows 10 experience on a small tablet now it comes with Windows s which is a more watered-down version that really watered down you get the full windows experience with it but one thing about it is that you can't install external ads from other developers you can only use what comes inside of the Windows Store so if you don't like that limitation though you can completely remove it and get the full-blown with those experience but this is one of the reasons why I think that it's geared towards students if you give this to like your little cousin or maybe your son or daughter someone young they're gonna be able to use it get full windows without getting any crazy stuff on the system so you don't have to worry so much about viruses or anything like that and when Microsoft announced the surface laptop with Windows s that was geared towards students so you kind of see where I'm going here and what's great is that Microsoft has gotten ridiculously good at making hardware so even though it's on the cheaper side of things you're still not getting a really cheap feeling product still feels just as premium as other the although it isn't much smaller and one of the things I like about the NGO is that it still has some of the features you expect to see on the higher end devices like Windows hello which lets you unlock the device with your face you also get expandable storage with a micro SD card slot and a webcam which is to be expected now of course with it being less expensive and so much smaller there are a couple of drawbacks that come with it and I know some people weren't thrilled by the Intel Pentium Gold processor that's inside of this and they would have wanted to see something like an i5 but I found that it pretty much handled whatever I threw at it within reasonable expectations so no this is not the device you're gonna want to take with you if you want to play Fortnight on the go it doesn't look that good Gaming is definitely not its strong suit whatsoever so I wouldn't try it if you're using word processing apps you're using this for emails of web browsing that kind of stuff it's gonna be able to handle it no problem I've been able to do that with no issues at all except for the typing experience now this is a smaller device so that means you're getting a smaller keyboard which thus comes separate but you can purchase that keyboard and use it as a full-blown laptop but like I said it is a smaller device with smaller keys so the keyboard does feel a little bit more cramped for me I have medium-sized hands area actually had no issue with the keyboard at all your hands are smaller so that's definitely something you're gonna want to keep in mind but if you're getting this for someone younger you probably won't run into that issue but it does still have a nice big trackpad which I have no complaints about I think one thing you really have to pay attention to is the single USBC port on this and we haven't fully made the jump to USB C so if you use certain devices you already own with regular USB ports you're gonna need a dongle it sucks to need a dongle but again with the price and hardware value it's hard to complain but I'll make sure to drop a few of my favorite dongles down below in the description if you guys need it and after my time with it I've walked away feeling like this is a great portable productivity device it's not great for gaming but that's okay not every single laptop has to be but this is Microsoft's take on the netbook in 2018 in the surface lineup that's the best way I can put it it's fine as a primary device if you're on a budget but is even better as a secondary device for those of you who want to do the basics while on the go and if you plan on picking one I feel like the configuration that'll probably treat you better in the long run would be the eight gigs of RAM model with 128 gigs of storage because that comes with an SSD so you're gonna get faster speeds but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you want to learn more about the surface goal I'll of course have links down below in the description if you enjoyed it be the cool guy girl that gives this video a thumbs up and I'll catch you guys in the next one till then is your average consumer peace