
The miserable pixels per inch left me truly disappointed in the Surface Laptop Go. If you want to split the difference, there’s also a $US700 ($971) version that includes everything the laptop reviewed here does but halves the storage to 128GB. I was provided with the $1,549 version, which adds a fingerprint reader into the power button and ups the RAM to 8GB and the storage to a faster, larger 256GB SSD. Microsoft didn’t provide this version for review, but it’s intended primarily for users who do everything online - sort of a Chromebook-style product for people who still really need a fleshed-out OS on occasion. The $999 version also uses a 64GB eMMC drive for storage and relies on just 4GB of RAM. Starting at $999, every version comes with the same 10th-gen Intel i5-1035G1 processor. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Go is Microsoft’s budget laptop. But this Surface Laptop Go still might be the least offensively priced Microsoft product of the year, because it’s absolutely the most functional. This has been the problem with a lot of Microsoft’s products this year - exceptional design, exceptional quality, and exceptionally high price. I know what I’m about to say next is going to give you a sense of déjà vu, but that doesn’t make it any less true: This thing is just way too expensive. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Go is a very good laptop.
