It feels like Microsoft have put this base model there just so they can advertise the laptop as ‘starting at £549’, when in reality most people are going to want the middle spec version. I can very easily see this model struggling with tasks like browsing the internet and streaming video, as well as being extremely slow when trying to access the memory.

Because of this, I don’t recommend anyone out there go for the base model of the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go. On the lowest end, most budget device, you’re still getting that i5, but you’re also only getting 4GB of RAM, and most importantly, you’re just getting 64GB of very slow storage. The problem here is that the model with all the bells and whistles isn’t the base model, so it’s difficult to still call it a budget device. It’s pretty much great for any office task, but if you try anything a little bit more intensive, this definitely isn’t the laptop for you. It’s a great little laptop for surfing the internet, writing documents, or video conferencing – which is becoming more and more important these days. Powering that 3:2 screen on the device I was using was an Intel i5 and 8GB of RAM, which was more than enough to easily get through almost any simple task I threw at it.

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