The large touchpad (115 x 77mm) supports five-finger multi-touch gestures. The full-size keyboard has 1.3mm key travel for comfortable typing and we found it felt crisp to use, with good travel and response. It's light enough to comfortably use in your lap for long periods, but can become noticeably warm underneath under heavy load

The lid can be opened easily with one hand while the laptop is sitting flat on the table, which we find is often an indicator of good build quality. Long rubber strips on the base give it very good grip on a desk. The body feels sturdy, with the base especially feeling comfortable to hold due to its softness and rounded corners. It has an aluminium lid and polycarbonate composite resin base and comes in three metallic colours: Ice Blue, Sandstone and Platinum. It weighs just 1110g, which is no burden to carry everywhere. We found it a very nice laptop to hold and use. If you're using the Surface Go for email, some web browsing in Edge, watching Netflix or Hulu, listening to Spotify, or using Microsoft Office I would say no, not really.The large touchpad (115 x 77mm) supports five-finger multi-touch gestures. Does it matter?īenchmarks are one thing, but does any of it matter? As usual with all things PC: it depends. (Personally speaking, I've used laptops with 4GB of RAM and think the hysteria against them is often overblown). Nonetheless, you can hit a wall if running 20 tabs in a browser with some more heavy apps running, but that is the tradeoff for a $399 PC versus something more expensive. Windows 10 does do an excellent job of managing memory even at the 4GB level compared to what it was like years ago. The question if 4GB of RAM is too little depends on your usage and expectations. Without even loading any apps RAM usage is already around 58% capacity. You can add more storage through the micro SD slot under the kickstand for music, videos, documents, photos and more. Other curious bits: Users have just over 40GB of free space out of the entire 64GB for storage.

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