Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 Unboxing & Review!”.
What’S going on guys, it’s your average consumer and it’s been a while, since we talked about a new surface device and right here, we’ve got the brand new surface laptop go 2, which is part of the surface go line. You know that started off with what looked like a very tiny version of the surface pro that’s kind of evolved into this guy right here and today we’re going to talk all about it. We’Re going to talk about what you get inside the box as well as who this is actually for, but before we get started, we got to give a huge shout out today’s sponsor hellofresh, i’m sure by now most of you have heard of hellofresh. But if you haven’t, they deliver fresh quality produce from the farm right to your door in less than a week, and they have 30 dinner recipes to choose from every week. So you’ll always be able to switch it up.
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This one is 39 watts, so not a very powerful charger, but this is not a big laptop, so it makes sense. But honestly, that’s about everything you get in the box. You know these are pretty minimal. So, let’s move on to the laptop, but once you get the wrap off of this, if you’re familiar with surface laptops, this feels just like a smaller version.
Like i mentioned before, this is the sage color on camera. It probably looks a lot more gray than it does green, but trust me it is green, but here it is you guys the surface laptop go to. Is it really fair to call? Well, i guess the second iteration of the laptop version. I think this is like the fourth go device that microsoft has made. I think they made the surface go surface. Go to.
You know what i think they’re. Actually, on the surface go 3, then they just went all in with the laptop design. Personally, i think it was a good move to move on over to like the standard laptop feel versus the tablet, with add-on keyboard give everybody what they want in one device. I think that’s the right move now. This is a bit of an interesting device.
Microsoft made some compromises, of course, so that you can have that 5.99 price tag, which i don’t think anybody should actually go for. You probably want to start with that 6.99 version and we’re going to talk about everything that you get when you pick up. One of these and the compromises that you make to keep the price low now first off when it comes to build quality. This still keeps that same high quality finish and feel that surface devices give you. This definitely doesn’t feel like a low budget product, which i think is one of the biggest selling points.
So we’ve got a 12.4 inch display over here. It’S not actually full 1080p. I think it’s 15 36 by 10 24. Am i right there? Yes, let’s go so you’re, not getting full 1080p, but i’ll be honest when watching content on here didn’t really feel like, i was watching a low resolution screen and that’s thanks to this, having a smaller display, 12.4 inches. This is microsoft’s pixel sense display. So you still have like a really nice looking display very vibrant in terms of colors a touch screen.
My only gripe would be the fact that it doesn’t get super bright like right now. I think we’re maxed out on the brightness. It’S fine when you’re looking straight on, but it’s not a very bright display. Honestly with how bright it is.
I don’t imagine it being much of an issue unless you’re outdoors going directly against the sun, but other than that you should be pretty happy with it uh. But one thing that’s also nice is that it has pretty solid speakers uh. We do this thing up to max volume in here and we were really surprised at the quality and how loud it gets, and it’s actually pretty interesting because it’s not like you’ll see a speaker grill on this anywhere. The speakers are actually right under the keyboard and it sounds really really good. Considering the overall size now in terms of the port selection, you’ve got all your ports right here. You get a usb, a usb type-c and a headphone jack and on the other side, you’ll get your surface connect port, so you can of course charge it or use the surface connect dock and that’s about it. I mean you’re, not gon na get a ton of. I o on a device, this small, but it is cool that you get a little bit of both you get the usb type, a and c, so you won’t really need to use any adapters to plug something in here now we talked a little bit about the Price point earlier: so, let’s get into that in the specs right, so that base model is going to get you an intel core i5 processor, with four gigs of ram, as well as 128 gigs of storage. Now, four gigs of ram that ain’t it in 2022. You guys yeah, yeah, chrome chrome will kill this thing with four gigs, so i would advise, if you’re looking at this, just completely stay away from that model uh.
But i am glad that we aren’t seeing the i3 that we used to see on those base models. That’S gone so very happy for that now, when you go up 100 bucks, you’re gon na be getting eight gigs of ram, as well as a fingerprint scanner built into the power button, which i absolutely like, the fingerprint scanner i got ta say so far. From my experience with it, it can be pretty hit or miss like sometimes it’ll get you in quick. Sometimes you got ta, lift your finger and press it down again, but for the most part it is nice that it’s there i like the keyboard. The typing experience is very nice. I believe that they had some issues with the previous trackpad uh in the first iteration of this uh.
This one is improved. This one feels really good. So, if we’re completely ignoring the base model, i think that’s a pretty good place to start 8 gigs of ram fingerprint scanner as well as 128 gigs. I5.
I think that’s a decent entry point and if you want to add another 128 gigs, you can look at the 799 model. I was just telling the guys earlier. This device reminds me a lot of apple’s macbook. I don’t know how many of you guys remember it, but the 12-inch model, which didn’t have much going for it. Aside from that really small form factor.
Now i like the fact that they didn’t go the apple route. With this, where that 12 inch macbook was like. I think 1200 bucks this one’s starting at 6.99.
I say 6.99. This one starts at 5.99, just because it’s like small thin has a really nice form factor. It doesn’t make it special treat it like an entry-level device and i think a lot more people will gravitate towards that and picking this up for someone doesn’t feel like hey. I just got you this cheap laptop from walmart.
I feel like the overall user experience from a hardware perspective, definitely delivers not gon na be able to do any hardcore gaming. We got by with a few games. Nothing super crazy, but this thing doesn’t have a dedicated graphics card.
It’S got the intel iris x, graphics. We were able to play some, like you know, 2d games with no problem, but definitely wouldn’t try to do anything crazy on this, like we couldn’t even get pubg to load right, it wasn’t happening. You can use a stylus with this. It doesn’t come with one, but if you wanted to get a stylus, you can absolutely use it. That’S the nice thing about like having like that pixel sense display. If you want to go all in into like the surface world, and you want to go ahead and add something like that, you definitely can so like. Who is this for right? I feel like this would be a really great laptop for students. I know that’s who microsoft was initially targeting with their go line, just like a really affordable surface device. I feel like it’s great for students or someone who’s, just looking to have a quality laptop that can just do just like the regular everyday tasks.
I feel like this absolutely does that i i would absolutely buy it for my dad father’s you’re right jay. This is great for father’s day too, if your dad’s not like this crazy techie, who needs the best specs in the world, absolutely a great gift. For me. I feel like a lot of laptops in this price range.
You don’t really get this kind of hardware, so it feels pretty easy to recommend if you’re looking to get someone something that feels really good the solid performance and doesn’t break the bank. That’S the surface laptop. Go to, let me know what you guys think with a comment down below. Hopefully you enjoyed this.
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