

Being a more “budget friendly” device, there is no backlighting on the keyboard and the trackpad doesn’t have haptic feedback like the new Surface Laptop Studio debuted. When you open the clam-shell lid, you are presented with a full-size rubberised plastic keyboard, which Microsoft claims “ provides 30% more key travel than the MacBook Air and a large trackpad. The model I tested was the Platinum model which is made of lightweight aluminium and has the familiar mirrored Microsoft logo on the lid. It comes in four colours including the standard Platinum, Ice Blue, Sage, and Sandstone. Laptop Go 2 weighs in at just 1.13kg and measures just 278.2mm x 206.2mm x 15.7mm – making it beautifully compact and lightweight and ideal for both students or anyone who travels or commutes a lot who are looking for something small, light but functional to take back and forth on the daily commute.Īs you come to expect with a Surface Device, Laptop Go 2 is sleek and stylish.

Microsoft say that the battery life in this model has also been slightly increased, partly owing to new Operating System Efficiencies in Windows 11 along with the lower power consuming 11th Gen chipsets.

Inside, we now get an 11th Generation Intel Core processor alongside Intel Iris Xe graphics [last year’s model had the 10th Gen processors and Intel UHD graphics). Version 2 of the Surface Laptop Go 2 – is every bit similar in shape, size, look at feel than the original but improves on it in several ways (under the hood). Surface Laptop Go 2 INTRODUCING “LAPTOP GO 2” Laptop Go 2 is sleek, fast, affordable, portable, and easily powerful enough for most productivity tasks at home or work. So – in short, the 2022 edition of the Surface Laptop Go 2 is a fantastic device for anyone in an admin role, those who travels a lot, work in education, front-line, sales etc., that needs a “good” overall performer (for email, web, office apps, bit of Netflix or Paramount+, etc.) but isn’t a “power user”. You can also check out my video review here: TL DR Now, after a couple of weeks of use as my “temporary” daily machines, this is my review of the updated, 2022, Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 which starts from just £600 in the UK (about $US 700). Last year, I reviewed the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go.
