I love that the Windows PC market is diverse enough to be able to offer many different laptops so you can find your own answer. It feels like the Surface Laptop Go 2 is asking you to pay a bit more for looks while sacrificing some specifications. I could live with the former, but if I’m looking for a single laptop to go walkabout with, the latter is a personal deal-breaker… your mileage may vary.įrankly, there’s an almost Apple-like deal going on here. The second is the lack of a backlit keyboard. First of all, if you go for a model with 8GB of RAM, the price point is about $50 higher compared to similar specced laptops from competitors. Yet I keep coming back to two key issues with the Laptop Go 2.

There’s something about a design that looks like a bundle of safe corporate choices that just works on the outside of the machine. Smitten is a good word to use with the Surface Laptop Go 2. But the compromises made in 2020 are still part of the core design of the Surface Laptop Go 2, which means that the beautiful but flawed Laptop Go has been brought up to the specs of the 2022 laptop market while still offering the same beautiful but flawed vision. Two years later, Microsoft has updated the performance specs on the Surface Laptop Go 2, certainly keeping up the pace of performance with the competition (and perhaps pushing forward a little more than the original Laptop Go compared to the competition). The original Surface Laptop Go felt like a laptop that had too many small compromises to get to a sub $600 price, and these compromises become more apparent as you moved up the portfolio where the competition from the likes of Acer and Asus offered better choices in specifications and design materials.

Realistically the 8GB/128GB model at $599 is a comfortable place to start, and you can double the storage for $100 to get an 8/256 model.

Pricing on the consumer versions of the laptop starts at $599 for the 4GB RAM 128 GB SSD storage, which of course comes with a caveat on the 4 GB of RAM offering little headroom for apps to work with. Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 Ewan Spence

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