The Microsoft Surface Laptop Go started out as an attractive budget laptop. In its third generation, its price has creeped up and it's largely lost its appeal.
Outclassed and overpriced, the Surface Laptop Go 3 can’t play with the big boys MSRP $800.00 Score Details “Microsoft's new, more expensive Surface Laptop Go 3 doesn't have the perks to justify its jacked-up price.” Pros Cons Microsoft’s traditional entry into the very competitive budget laptop market is the Surface Laptop Go, which we reviewed in 2020 when it was first introduced.
A design that begs for a lower price At a time when manufacturers are going larger with their laptops, particularly introducing more 14-inch machines, Microsoft has maintained the Surface Laptop Go 3’s diminutive stature. It’s built around a 12.4-inch display, with reasonably small display bezels around the top and sides. That makes it very small in width and depth, which forces at least one compromise you’ll notice when you go to type. We’ll get more into that below.
Normally, Surface devices have excellent keyboards, ranking up there with the best. That’s not the case with the Surface Laptop Go 3. To begin with, the narrow chassis forces a cramped keyboard, with decently sized keycaps but not enough spacing. It took me a while to get used to the keyboard’s dimensions, with my fingers often searching for the home row. The switches weren’t the greatest either, with sufficient travel but a surprisingly stiff feel and abrupt bottoming action.
Unfortunately, the Surface Laptop Go 3’s performance suffered. It was decidedly slower than almost all the other laptops in our comparison group, of which all but the Asus ZenBook S 13 OLED come in at $1,000 or less. It managed to beat only the Dell XPS 13 9315, which uses a lower-power 9-watt Intel CPU and starts at $599.
In our web-browsing test, the Surface lasted for just 6.5 hours, well below most other laptops in our comparison group. It lasted longer in our video-looping test at 13.5 hours. However, the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED and Apple MacBook Air M1, which compete with the base and upgraded Surface Laptop Go 3, respectively, were both much stronger.
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