- 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.
