- So just like everybody else, Microsoft has had to cancel
their in person conferences.
But that doesn't mean that they're canceling new hardware.
This is the Surface Go 2.
It is the second iteration
of Microsoft's tiny little windows surface tablet
with its own little kickstand, and you know what?
The original Surface Go, I kind of fell in love
with that computer because I love having a tiny computer.
But it had some problems.
And Microsoft has done everything that it can I think
to address those problems, or at least the biggest ones
and the one that you're going to see right away
that they're trying to do better
is when you look at the screen.
The original Surface Go had huge bezels
and the bezels on this one are way, way smaller
because the screen is now 10.5 inches.
I think it's 19, 20 by 12 ad which means it's three by two
which is the right aspect ratio for computers,
I think anyway.
But it looks like a good screen.
The bezels aren't quite as small as you can get
on like a Surface Pro X, but they're still respectable.
The last bezels were actually kind
of like vaguely embarrassing.
This does not feel cramped anymore.
I'm very excited about the screen.
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The second problem with the original Surface Go was that
it was kinda well, slow.
It had this Intel Pentium Gold processor,
which did the job mostly but you could really feel
it struggle a lot.
And the base model of this new Surface Go 2 unfortunately,
also has an Intel Pentium Gold processor.
I think it's a 4425Y, comes with four gigs of RAM
and 64 gigs of storage, but it's EMMC storage,
which is a little bit slow.
But the combination of all those things is how they keep
the price down for the base model.
It starts at 399.
You can also get a model with that same processor,
eight gigs of RAM and 128 gig SSD for 529 but, yeah.
If you're gonna spend more money on this computer
to the one to get is the one that comes
with the new processor option.
It is an 8th Gen Core M3 from Intel
with eight gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabyte SSD
and that costs 629.
And if you want for 100 bucks more, you can get it with LTE.
Although, you know, on top of that you're also gonna need
to buy a keyboard.
However, if you already have a Surface Go,
you actually won't have to buy a new keyboard
because it is the exact same size and shape overall
as the original Surface Go.
So all of your keyboards and either accessories
you might have gotten will still work
with this Surface Go 2.
They even kept the ports the same.
So there is a surface connector 'cause Microsoft loves them.
A surface connector, I don't but maybe their customers do,
I don't know.
They kept the surface connector.
There's also a USBC port
and there is a headphone jack, hooray.
And last but not least, there is expansion for storage
in the form of microSD on the back.
Now the front facing camera is five megapixels
and you can get a nice five megapixel camera in a surface
because the whole computer is in the tablet
which means that you have more, you know, Z axis space
there to fit a nicer camera in.
And that of course means it works with Windows.
Hello, you would expect that out of a surface.
So you can log in with your face.
Microsoft says there's also studio microphones
for better sound and I hope that's true.
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Like I said, I really did love the original one.
I don't know, it just felt cute like a Fiat 500 car
was a metaphor that I used,
fun to drive but like it couldn't go uphill very fast.
And so I'm really interested to see
if putting a proper Core M3 into this machine will mean that
it will fare better in terms of performance.
Now the third thing, I almost forgot
but it's actually maybe the most important thing,
is battery life.
Microsoft says that they put a larger battery inside
the Surface Go 2, which should give it up to 10 hours.
Now, Microsoft's 10 hours isn't necessarily real.
We'll use or maybe very rundown or whatever
so we got to test it.
But a device like this is meant to be ultra portable.
It's, you know, why it's so small?
It's about the same size as like an iPad Pro 11.
And so you want it to last a long time on battery
'cause you wanna be out in the world with it,
if you ever get to go out of the world again.
So I'm also excited to test to see if the battery life
on this thing is any better too.
These devices are going to be available on May 12,
including the LTE edition.
Usually that one comes way later.
So we're gonna have a full review of this,
up on the verge at some point in the near future.
If you've got questions about the Surface Go 2,
please let me know down in the comments
and I will do my best to answer them in the review.
Hey, thanks so much for watching.
You know, when you shoot from home by yourself,
you forget that the bit where you ask for comments
is supposed to go on the end card not the main video.
But you just let it go 'cause, you know, we're just shooting
from the hip here.
I appreciate you, thanks for watching.