Surface Go 2 Wi-Fi + LTE Bundle: Intel m3, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM and Type Cover

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03-20-2021 at 03:04 PM #3

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Go edition of windows is totally useless!

No, your post is totally worthless. What are you talking about, Go edition of Windows?

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03-20-2021 at 03:26 PM #5

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This comes with Windows Home in S mode, which lacks many features of full windows home. To get all windows features you have to either upgrade windows or buy surface pro to start

It's a free upgrade that takes two clicks.

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03-20-2021 at 03:28 PM #6

Intel m3 CPU is even worse than the recent Snapdragon chips. This form factor was special 2-3 years now pro tablets from Apple Lenovo and HP have the same form factor. What you have left is an overpriced tablet with a keyboard.

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03-20-2021 at 03:47 PM #7

I love it how the comment section on these pcu slickdeals are a playground for tech narcissist, making fraudulent claims that "such and such" is better than "such and such", "when i was growing up we never had such and such, these new laptops are just a cathode ray tube with a remote control acting as a keyboard, things will never be the same"..

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03-20-2021 at 04:05 PM #8

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Go edition of windows is totally useless!

Looks like you didnt even read the instructions smh,. I wonder which is the useless one

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03-20-2021 at 04:24 PM #9

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This comes with Windows Home in S mode, which lacks many features of full windows home. To get all windows features you have to either upgrade windows or buy surface pro to start

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It's a free upgrade that takes two clicks.

Man am I tired of these guys spouting BS about Windows 10 S mode when they don't know what they are talking about. Thanks Jack for pointing this out to this guy.

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03-20-2021 at 04:27 PM #10

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I love it how the comment section on these pcu slickdeals are a playground for tech narcissist, making fraudulent claims that "such and such" is better than "such and such", "when i was growing up we never had such and such, these new laptops are just a cathode ray tube with a remote control acting as a keyboard, things will never be the same"..

Your name is TensePickle, but your avatar is a stalk of celery. Why should we trust you?

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03-20-2021 at 04:53 PM #11

I've got 1 of these, this is a good price if you're interested in this smaller form factor surface tablet and need the LTE. An Ipad is generally a better tablet experience, this is more like a scaled down Windows laptop and S mode kind of lends itself more to that experience than pro windows 10 does. The bigger issue is the quality of apps on the Windows App store, if for your needs you can find what you want, its great. Chromium Edge is actually a pretty good browser if you want chrome functions (ie using extensions and the like).

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03-20-2021 at 05:06 PM #12

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Your name is TensePickle, but your avatar is a stalk of celery. Why should we trust you?

Don't.. sometimes I don't even trust myself 😈

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03-20-2021 at 05:21 PM #13

I have the original Surface Go, I got it because pre-covid I would travel a lot and it was such a pain to lug around a full size laptop that I opted for the Go and I love it. I used to run Photoshop, Illustrator (now I use Leonardo and Inkscape when needed), Full Microsoft Office suite, and tons more apps on it and it's never lagged. Truthfully the only thing I have issues with is Zoom but I honestly think that's my router or Zoom that's a problem. I would buy another one of these in a heartbeat. Do you need to have a full size laptop or desktop on the side if you're doing graphic intensive work like video editing and such? Yes cause this this isn't a powerhouse. But this is my daily driver. And yes you can upgrade for free in two clicks as mentioned above to full Windows 10 Home. I can also do remote desktop and VPN with this which is what I need for remote work. So the haters can hate, but I love the Surface Go.

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03-20-2021 at 05:32 PM #14

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I have the original Surface Go, I got it because pre-covid I would travel a lot and it was such a pain to lug around a full size laptop that I opted for the Go and I love it. I used to run Photoshop, Illustrator (now I use Leonardo and Inkscape when needed), Full Microsoft Office suite, and tons more apps on it and it's never lagged. Truthfully the only thing I have issues with is Zoom but I honestly think that's my router or Zoom that's a problem. I would buy another one of these in a heartbeat. Do you need to have a full size laptop or desktop on the side if you're doing graphic intensive work like video editing and such? Yes cause this this isn't a powerhouse. But this is my daily driver. And yes you can upgrade for free in two clicks as mentioned above to full Windows 10 Home. I can also do remote desktop and VPN with this which is what I need for remote work. So the haters can hate, but I love the Surface Go.

Thank you for the review. I have wanted one of these Surfaces for a while to play around with to see how I like it. I am more of a Mac guy now but I am intrigued by it.

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03-20-2021 at 05:35 PM #15

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I have the original Surface Go, I got it because pre-covid I would travel a lot and it was such a pain to lug around a full size laptop that I opted for the Go and I love it. I used to run Photoshop, Illustrator (now I use Leonardo and Inkscape when needed), Full Microsoft Office suite, and tons more apps on it and it's never lagged. Truthfully the only thing I have issues with is Zoom but I honestly think that's my router or Zoom that's a problem. I would buy another one of these in a heartbeat. Do you need to have a full size laptop or desktop on the side if you're doing graphic intensive work like video editing and such? Yes cause this this isn't a powerhouse. But this is my daily driver. And yes you can upgrade for free in two clicks as mentioned above to full Windows 10 Home. I can also do remote desktop and VPN with this which is what I need for remote work. So the haters can hate, but I love the Surface Go.

Agreed. I had the original Surface Go and hooked it up to a dock via USB-C and it was money. Threw a 400gb SD card in the back and it was a great little machine. Would I pay $700+ for it again, probably not but it is a very capable machine and if you formed your only opinion of m3 processors back in the 2015-16 timeframe when they were Gen 1 then you might be selling this thing short.

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