hi I am the tech lead and why I have
here today is the new Microsoft Surface
go and I thought what we would do today
is really just stop and take a look at
this device and for me to tell you guys
why you probably should not buy it yeah
I've seen a lot of people online going
around really confused thinking about if
this is the device they want maybe this
is what they've been looking for their
whole lives and no it's not it's it's
pretty much absolute garbage for most
general people and let me tell you why
so I've had this device the past few
days and what it is is it's essentially
an iPad with an attachable keyboard and
it runs Windows operating system and
it's the full version of Microsoft
Windows now there are a lot of people
who go around talking about other specs
and I find that it doesn't really matter
because you can't really compare iPad
specs for example to Windows specs it's
completely different that device is
different this is running a huge
operating system underneath all you need
to know is it's pretty slow it runs
about comparable to a standard iPad
model I found it's not blazing fast
there's still a lot of scroll jank here
and there as I'm scrolling through
webpages things just get stuck here and
there once you start opening up multiple
tabs may be playing the YouTube video in
the background it's not going to run
that well you can play a few 3d games
here and there and the way they sell
this is there are two different
configurations there's a four gigabyte
memory model that is $400 if you add 150
bucks you get eight gigabytes of memory
which is this model and they give you a
faster SSD drive for hard disk storage
and I would recommend to a cake of my
mother if you get one because even this
a gigabyte model feels sluggish
if I try to run a Chrome for example
which is one of the world's fastest
browsers it's actually very slow you
can't really run chrome that well on it
like a lot of pages start lagging up
when you start scrolling and what you
end up having to do is use Microsoft's
edge browser which is more optimized for
mobile devices and using edge web
browsing actually becomes more usable
scrolling is smooth now if you buy the
go I also recommend getting the
detachable keyboard which is an extra
hundred dollars or so and the reason is
because most of the apps that you'll be
running on here are going to be standard
Windows apps they don't really have a
good selection of mobile apps so a lot
of the standard Microsoft Windows apps
if they're going to expect that you
actually have a trackpad and a keyboard
we're just probably going to make this
set up your sander set them and overall
this case is fine it works pretty well
the typing is fine and the trackpad
works good so that brings the total
price of this to $650 and don't forget
that if you want the additional software
like if you want Microsoft Office that's
an extra like ten bucks a month or
something like that this comes with a
webcam as well and I also really like
how it has a USB C port and you can use
that USB C port for charging so it works
well with my macbook pro I don't need
any additional cables to get this going
now this is a very fascinating device
and at times I found myself really
amazed and stunned at what this device
could do compared to a standard iPad
like I can connect this to my home
printer and start printing files I can
connect the digital camera to this
device using the USB C port and start
transferring files and view my digital
camera files on here and then post them
online I can connect the mouse a
keyboard I can connect the monitor and
start using this like a normal desktop
pretty much anything that you expect a
normal computer to do this can do
because it's running standard Microsoft
Windows and that's what makes it such an
amazing device other times I find myself
completely hating this device because I
sort of a hybrid between a laptop and a
tablet it does nothing truly right so
now that we understand what this device
is let me tell you why in my opinion is
probably going to be garbage for most
people like if you don't know if you
need it you probably aren't going to
need it and the reasoning is basically
that this is a really good tablet as
from not really a good laptop and let me
tell you why it's not a good laptop the
main reason is it's a 10-inch netbook
basically since the love apps you'll be
running are going to require a keyboard
or mouse you're gonna want to be typing
on this and you'll be keeping the
computer at arm's length from you so
that you can actually type but then
you'll find that the screen is so small
your eyes start to get damaged you're
squinting all the time you can't see
things clearly so you bring a closer to
you and then you're back it gets hunched
over you're trying to type and the
screen is really small and starting to
damage your eyes even though it's still
very close to your face and it's just
not a really good economic position I
wouldn't wish this on anybody I once
used an eleven inch laptop and it was
horrible I will not do 11 inches again
even if you look at Apple the smallest
screen
stay so is at least 12 inches and even
then I might recommend 13 inches minimum
for anybody I would not want a kid using
a 10 inch laptop because it would damage
their eyes I would not want
businesspeople using laptops like this
either because their backs will get
hunched over they're getting damaged in
their backs so ergonomically I think
it's just not very good as a laptop and
you're going to find that this is an
exercise in frustration because the
screen size is so small a lot of apps
are expecting larger screen sizes
they just don't layout that well the
fonts are way too small and you may also
find that this device feels under power
to like even Chrome which is supposed to
be a very fast web browser and one of
the most popular in the world I can't
run the very smoothly when I start
scrolling through web pages it starts
shrinking up now when I detach it like
this I can use it in tablet mode and
well that solves the ergonomic issues
because I can hold this closer to my
face now but the problem is there are no
apps for this really you don't have
access to your iOS apps you don't have
access to the Android apps what you have
is the Windows app store but because iOS
and Android are so dumb and in these
days a lot of people aren't making apps
for the Windows Store there's no Google
Maps so you end up having to use Google
Maps through the web page and that
experience is pretty janky
there's no YouTube app either so you end
up having to watch YouTube through the
web page as well and then you find that
the YouTube website was not really
designed for touch devices like a lot of
interfaces use the on hover state which
touch doesn't really have so lot of
controls just start appearing and
disappearing very quickly it doesn't
work very well you don't have hangouts
or Gmail while you can access hangouts
or Gmail through the web interface you
don't get the push notifications so
you're always going to be late when
we're playing to people there's a few
other apps here and there that they may
have like I guess they have the Netflix
app they have an Instagram app facebook
Messenger whatsapp line so there's a few
apps here and there but most of these
top apps when I look in the rankings I
don't recognize them so even though this
device looks like a tablet feels like a
tablet it doesn't run any of the
standard tablet software that you're
expecting like iOS and Android now in
terms of gaming I tried out a 3d game
Final Fantasy 15 Pocket Edition lot of
times were a little bit longer than I
like but the graphics over
held up the only problem I would say is
when you look at the release date this
game final fantasy 15 pocket edition was
first released on iOS and Android and
then six months later almost like a
afterthought they released it for the
windows App Store so again the
availability of software is going to hit
you here because over time I think
you'll find that love popular software
just isn't going to be available on this
device so taking a look at this package
as a whole I think it's not a really
good laptop experience and it's not a
really good tablet experience and
overall it's just going to be an
experience in frustration due to the
small screen size for a lot of apps the
fans are going to be just way too hard
to read and you find that when you start
trying to tap on buttons and using tap
gestures none of it really works well
you might keep missing tapping on things
because the apps just weren't really
built with touch and mind they were
built with a small precise cursor in
mind as a tablet the main problem is
there's not enough software availability
I think that if the screen size were
larger then that would at least out of
my issue with this at least from a
laptop perspective it would at least be
usable like that and then maybe you
could use it as a tablet too every now
and then if you wanted to and that might
be workable but I think you have to ask
yourself really why do you want this as
a tablet configuration there's not
laughs app support for this it's kind of
like saying if you could run Microsoft
Windows on your phone would you want to
do that would you really want to start
putting up windows trying to resize
windows clicking on small little
microscopic buttons like it's just going
to be very difficult to be using and
that's pretty much what they've done
with this
the screens has is just way too small to
make it really usable there may be
certain specific use cases for this
device that may make sense for you
though like overall it's quite an
interesting device and although it is
exercise in frustration you'll find that
it's probably a much more capable device
than like iPad you just probably be
pulling your hair out every step of the
way but you'll probably be able to
accomplish more on this than with an
iPad it's just going to damage your back
and eyes and your hair if you're an
artist and you're considering this I
think this may be kind of underpowered
even in the 8 gigabyte RAM model as a
drawing device like if you're running
Photoshop and you're trying to do some
drawing on this you might see some lag
and I think the worst of it is unlike
the bigger surface is the surface go
wouldn't really be a great laptop I can
also imagine there may be some service
workers who may be using a device like
this for
businesses maybe like car repair people
but you know the thing is this doesn't
have cellular network connectivity at
least not in this current generation
model so I don't see this device being
actually that useful for them so overall
though I wouldn't say that this device
is completely horrible there's certain
things I like about that I really like
how this device is so capable I can
transfer movie files onto here and start
watching them I can visit a web page and
just print it to my printer I can even
open up a terminal login to my web
server and start doing it work so there
are a few good things about this but
Sabah's impressive essay and netbook
really is it's in that book it's a
netbook and you know netbooks pretty
much died out over the past few years
if you're interested in that type of
thing then go ahead and get that all the
more power to you but I would say for
most people if you don't really know
what you're doing you're probably gonna
be better off getting standard laptop or
like a iPad so they'll do for me let me
know what your thoughts are on the
Microsoft Surface go let me know if you
think it's useful if you think it's
garbage
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