

The system is slightly heavier than its predecessor, weighing in at 2.48 lb to the original Surface Go’s 2.44 lb. The company does, however, get a nice little dig in at Apple, noting that the Laptop Go has “30% more key travel than a MacBook Air.” That seems like an odd boast only if you’ve never typed on Apple’s older, rock-hard laptop keyboards. Strangely, the 12.4-inch touchscreen maintains the same resolution at 1536 x 1024 (148 PPI), while a backlit keyboard is still nowhere to be found. This is also the first Surface to support Intel-based secured-core PC for added protection. It’s not an everyday laptop for power users but could do well as a secondary laptop or Chromebook competitor. Improves display accuracy when auto-brightness is enabled. Improves device stability during reboot scenarios. This update: Improves system performance and stability. That can be upgraded to 8GB, while storage goes up to 256GB. The following update is available for Surface Laptop Go 2 devices running Windows 11 October 4, 2021, Version 21H2, or greater. That’s still plenty affordable, and storage is at 128GB by default - that’s double the gen 1. The starting price of the Windows 11 system has been raised $50 to $599 (and let’s be real, everything is more expensive, these days).
