The issue you're describing at the beginning sounds vaguely similar to what I've seen in both the Surface Pro & other laptops, where the processor gets stuck on minimum frequency until... you go into sleep mode and back. Power cycling, reinstalls, don't work. Only sleeping.
I've had this issue with other laptops when undervolting with throttlestop, and benchmarking. It seems that if you exceed certain temperature parameters, some throttling setting in the bios gets stuck, and requires the battery to be disconnected to reset. I guess the long press of the power button on the surface does a similar power disconnect.
It's not a firmware update. Just turn off the fast startup in the system settings and you'll be good.. They have a quick power-on and off feature which saves your system state which impacts performance.
I read about that - to hit those quick start ups Windows 10 goes into "freeze mode" but it's not genuine system off and then quick reboot like it is with say linux. This incidentally needs to be turned off if you want to dual-boot with Linux iirc.
Since most apps on what we have on iOS and Android are not available/optimised to Windows tablet, we have to rely on Web apps (mostly based on HTML and etc.). The question is can the Core M3 handle sites like Netflix, RU-vid, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites well?
There's a netflix app for windows (apparently) which optimizes and so runs well. You'll see youtube slow-down however using the SG2 even with the m3-intel processor version. Of course if you only open 1 tab and run things at a lower setting it will run fun (assuming your connection is also fine). It'll handle office applications and other social media fine however. Fundamentally the question is Performance:Price Ratio. It's just NOT good enough for the price. Otherwise the form factor is one of the best imo and the connectivity option (LTE - really needs to be 5G for SG3) is also excellent. I'd get one of these except the Mac Air M2 processor for same price after accessories for the SG2 shows just how bad the price:performance ratio is if you go all out on the top SG2 model...
But this is not a gaming machine. Why don't you do a test with outlook and Excel, access, PowerPoint, with Chrome open with ten tabs ... A big inbox in outlook is a problem in a desktop, A big Dropbox folder slows down the start...I think it is a device focused in productivity in mobility, so this is what you should show us. For playing videogames, buy an iPad or Android device.
But an iPad can do Excel, PowerPoint and Chrome open with ten tabs open as well, so the iPad is a good all-rounder, also the speed of the games loading up will also affect the loading speed of your word document as it is determined by the CPU and the SSD, although he didn’t test the SSD, I can say that the SSD in the GO 2 is at least 30% faster than the GO, also Minecraft is a very light weight title, as well as a popular one that most students play, and if it can’t do that, that’s kinda bad, especially if it’s main aim is at students
@@TechnoLadz the iPad can open an excel, but doesn't run real excel, the iPad runs mobile outlook, but not real outlook...the iPad is the best tablet, but this is a computer with tablet shape, and if you buy this thing is because you really want this features as the real complete software, not something similar that lets you open and see a file. This machine is for people who works in Windows environment with programs that runs in Windows and wants something lightweight to use it during travels and or in mobility. Depending on what software you use, if you try to work with a tablet you will notice very soon that it's just a tablet, not a productivity machine. And I don't think that surface Go is developed for playing games or run Photoshop, I think it's made to run the office suite, surf the web, use teams, use VPN connection to your business and run the propietary "Windows" software that many business have instead of developing a web based or iOS/android version of them.
@@enriccarrasco3646 great replies! As a teacher, I want a secondary machine, which complements my primary machine (a bulky windows 10 laptop). I am going to work on it which is just not possible without ms office. I don't like when youtube reviewers talk about extra stuff which we don't need.
Good evening. I have a problem with Surface go 2. It has worked well. My surface charger does't work. I do not know the reason. Then I charge it with Type-C cable. After that it works slowly again and again. It doesn't work properly. One day My surface turn off suddenly and it doesn't turn on. It is charging with New Charger . But it doesn't turn on . What I should do in order to turn it on? Please help me!
A little undervolting might help with the throttling. It's not possible with the original Go, afaik, but should be possible with m3. What do you think?
Jay Weezy You would be, it has more ram, the bigger screen (which I think is a positive), proper cooling so up to 30% better performance and not as much lag
Be careful buying a used sp4 because it might be affected by the flicker gate. Also, my i5 sp4 after 4 years is overheating like crazy and the battery life is shit (like barely an hour of moderate use). I doubt the i7 version would be any better if not worse. Personally I would go for the Go 2 since sp4 just has a higher risk of being problematic in general.
Surface Pro 5th Gen (2017) with i5, 8GB RAM vs Go 2 M3 model? Which one has the better performance? I mostly use Chrome with Google Documents/Sheets and around 10 other tabs opened at the same time.
I really like this device but I do not like the cpus Microsoft chooses. I really hope next iteration of the go has arm or amd options. Did Intel stop making new m series mobile processors?
@@Subh8081 Completely agree: the performance:price ratio is crazy still for SG2. Otherwise it's a dream form factor, connectivity (LTE 5G please!) and interactivity (typing full OS and touch-pen input).
Haha She's still around.... I did about 10 Surface Pro 3 videos and the one with Candice in it just didn't get views... I don't know what that says about society or not. She currently rocks a Surface Pro 7 herself :D
