Scrolling with the touchscreen was often not very smooth within Chrome (using the Type Cover's trackpad to scroll is smoother, but it still sometimes stuttered).įor what it's worth, Microsoft's Edge browser works way better than Chrome on the Surface Go. Loading websites was unusually slow on both my fast work and home WiFi. Google Chrome, an app that pretty much everyone uses, couldn't handle more than a couple of open tabs. The Go's Pentium processor is really wimpy.

Microsoft touts 33 percent faster graphics than a Intel Core i5-powered Surface Pro 3 and 20 percent faster graphics performance than Core i7-powered Surface Pro 3, but honestly, none of these figures really matter because the Surface Go chokes up fast under even light usage. This Pentium chip is significantly slower (Opens in a new tab) than the Intel Core m3 chip inside of the entry-level Surface Pro. I had concerns about performance when Microsoft first told me the Surface Go was powered by an Intel Pentium Gold seventh-generation Intel Pentium Gold (Opens in a new tab) 4415Y processor and limited RAM (the $399 model comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage and the 8GG of RAM with 128GB of storage) and they were confirmed during my testing. It's too slow and sluggish for getting any real work done.

I wish it wasn't so, but the Surface Go's biggest weakness is performance.

Having toured Microsoft's durability labs where Surface devices are designed and stress-tested, I expected nothing but the best and Microsoft really delivered with top-notch hardware for the Go. All the ports you get: Headphone jack, USB-C, and Surface Connector.

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