Surface Laptop Go - The Perfect Laptop for Students! 

My 4 year old phone has more ram lol Microsoft are real clowns

It ain't. It is good enough for everyday use.

This runs just perfectly fine, more does not always means better... If you're gonna just use it for students stuff like browsing, books, and word documents this is more than capable to do so, even for wat hing movies and playing simple games like ffxiv and lol on low specs Also, this picture is disturbing 🙄

@Kerr Beeldens if they cant put in an i7 then just top out at $799. RAM and SSD are very cheap nowadays. Im surprised they’re charging $200 to go from 128gb to 256gb.

yes because 600$ for 4gb of ram is very reasonable. barely can run teams. those specs would be killer, but still their would not be enough extra sales to make up for the increased cost in manufacturing. also they dont want this to cannabalize their sales of the surface laptop 3

@Blue eyed Eurasian where are you from? Lmao. You must be stuck in the year 2010. It should not cost $200 to go from 128GB to 256GB. For god sake, 256GB SSD is being retail for $30 on amazon.

@@hansenluu ur not wrong lol

I just bought a surface pro 4 + pen with an i5 8G/256GB for $450 so this is definitely making me happy about that decision :)

Idk man, for college stuff. Watching videos, office, 4GB DDR4 plus like 256GB M.2 is fine, imo.

Upgrade it then, it’s already a affordable laptop

I would rather have i5 than more storage

@@goudendynamiethd2117 this is ram, not memory

@@hojha17 I agree. 4GB can go a long way for basic Web apps along with light photo editing - and office, watching videos, etc as you mentioned. Many students and business users/owners would be able to benefit from this.

And the i5 is also low tier spec???

@@King-zo4vv yes, it is, because you won't utilize even half of its power because of 4gb ram and terrible emmc. It'll be a huge bottleneck for i5s power.

@@King-zo4vv having an I5 is useless if you have 4GB of ram with 64 emmc storage. Windows will probably take a big chunk of that too. I think this model is just there to advertise it as a '$550' laptop.

They even shouldn’t have released this model, it’s a joke to Windows 10.

yeh the one thats the good one is the 700$, that is a really nice deal

Premium outer shell with compromised specs, isn't this the reason that most windows people despise apple for? Also 64GB might be ok but it's emmc

This is not premium, stop looking at only the logo. It's made of plastic, the trackpad isn't glass, the keyboard isn't backlit, the screen is terrible and low resolution, the battery is below average, the base model doesn't even come with the fingerprint reader

Who knows man probably in the future it's not (random company) vs Macbook. But Surface vs Macbook. That'll be cool.

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@@dustbinsavesyou8283 how come?

If Microsoft put a powerful processor as an M1 in their Surface lineup they'll be good.

did you get the 64gb or 128gb option? or like how does it run with many tabs open sorry for the questions i'm just looking into it as a student!!

@@reneestv9358 have a video of when I unboxed it, and I got the 128 I believe and it runs like a dream. I have multiple external hard drives but I only have the i5 processor

@@MatteaHenderson okay thank you i'll go watch that video!!

The ice blue tho hella chill

The Flex 5 is quite good for the price.

You can get the hp pavilion gaming laptop at Walmart for around 589 for a gtx 1650

@@Desanti69 that's the exact configuration I was talking about :D

Asus vivobook flip 14 AMD Ryzen 7

Typing this from Flex 5. It's lovely. The keyboard feels amazing, the display is brilliant, the sound is a little meh but fine for movies and stuff.

the 700$ is the only one that is worth it in my opinion. the 550$ is targeted at light users who still want something that works

Fun Sharul yea it’s actually pathetic at 64gb but eh a lot of external hdd and ssd are not that expensive. Though it would be better to grab at least 256gb storage and 8gb ram

@@sentryion3106 so, it's replaceable? Thank god

I think its the same as the surface laptop 3. A square ish looking m.2 nvme ssd

Windows itself will take nearly the third of this storage.

But an external drive is quite clumsy for a laptop...

Imagine finding a Slim 7

Agree.

@iSolvano / Games on OLED actually it runs passively almost all the time. Sure, when I start to game, it is audible, but nothing too bad.

Those exist? The elusive mythical creature that is the RTX 3080 is easier to find than that laptop.

Lenovo is not a bad brand, but since it’s a Chinese company, I couldn’t really trust its products.

Thank you! Trying to get back into full force

@@MatthewMoniz man you're great.. I'm a recent subscriber and damm your content is at times better than the top level techies

Is plastic premium now?

The HP Envy is kinda eh in build quality though. You could probably do even better with Lenovo and Acer. Heck the Acer Nitro 5 comes in at $650 with a Ryzen 5 4500U, GTX 1650, 8GB RAM expandable to 32GB, 256GB M.2 SSD with slots for a second M.2 and an additional 2.5 HDD.

Oh no.. I just ordered 2.. I thought it was a really good deal, because they were for shool for 2 different people. Did I make a mistake?

@@ilovewall.e which version did you buy?

@@muhammetfurkandemir2467 i bought the 8gb 128gb model and i'm really woried

@@ilovewall.e The device will not upset you. You can be sure about that. You just paid more than you deserve. You have paid this money to the brand and design line. So the device won't let you down. If you don't mind the money you give, it's okay.

A1. yes A2. a lot PD. Darude Sandstorm

Bruh same

Well said, but on the other hand it's good that not all laptops are ugly ass red :D

Clean look elitists do exist though, they feel "mature" just because they care about how a laptop should look

What you said makes sense to some people, but there is a bunch of people who buy MacBooks to show off how much money they spent.

@@robertp457 fool

@@nrgamingtech2797 Unfortunately, in the field of graphic design, they judge you on your equipment, so it DOES matter to look more professional and clean to get more clients.

@@msp5138 I do realise that "student" is quite a wide term, but in the context of the video title, and, how most people perceive term "student", in my opinion, this laptop is far from perfect. Honestly, I would appreciate it if you, or somebody else, can name the strong points of Surface Laptop Go, compared to similarly priced, or cheaper options from other manufacturers.

I use my iPad Pro for class work and love it. Why don’t you like using it out of class?

@@Garrard1198 I’m a windows guy iPad just good for note taking and the flexibility good notes offers but annoying in my opinion for using it for excel and spreadsheet work

They should make a 16/512 option for 800

Thanks Bikash and hopefully it makes it through

@@MatthewMoniz If it does, Base model price will be around 750 US$ because of taxes😭

India isn't a major market for Microsoft Surface. Even if they do launch it here, the price rises at least upto 10% and the value for money is gone. Indians mostly don't care about quality, they care about value for money. This is the reason why Huawei and Xiaomi are soon going to capture the Laptop space as well here

@@mxyznk Well You can't blame them every Laptop manufacturers are crippled by these government taxes. Macbook air cost 1300$ that's 300$ premium, same goes for every other manufacturers (MSI,Dell,HP). Price here is 25-30% more than any other country. You can't expect everyone to go along with this Made in India bullshit (BTW that's the only way they can dodge taxes) We have seen this in many other categories every apple product is seriously more expensive ,consoles too XBOX series S was suppose to be budget and they priced it same as XBOX ONE X from few years ago. For 550$ you can only get a cheap HP or dell laptop with so so performance.

Wow that's terrible. Microsoft pricing is ridiculous

Better specs. You want decent GPU with those. If you got the money look at the Triton 300 or the new updated Omen 15.

The Surface Pro line literally killed the Laptop Go. I get hell a lot more spec options from the Surface Pro 7 not to mention performance wise the Surface Pro 7 just crushes the Laptop Go. Considering they're almost the same size, I really don't know what Microsoft is thinking when pushing this thing. They might have done a better job if they go all out lazy and swapped a Tigerlake inside a Surface Pro 7 and call it a Surface Pro 8.

Get the Acer Swift 3. because the surface laptop go isn't meant for any hard task that require a lot of CPU,GPU and storage. its meant for small task like creating presentation and word documents. that's why they compare it to chromebooks. but it looks damn good though

If you’re a student gamer you’d be looking at a legion 3i or nitro from Acer. 128gb is fine for productivity work like word processing, excel etc. If developing an external drive may be needed. This is much cheaper then a MacBook Air but I’ll need to review first before answering that question

ikr

only storage not ram and even that should probably be done by a professional

More like RIP your credibility lol. Chromebooks are cheap and serve an awesome way to get connected to the internet. Super popular in school

@@MatthewMoniz Wow, an official reply! 😂 My reply is exactly what you said just before that: "If you're going to school, having a Windows laptop, having access to basically any app you want, is a lot more attractive then a Chromebook."

Ya its a smart move on Microsoft's part

i thought it will will be with AMD processor

@@allsides5626The storage is very discouraging also, I love it but am considering a better option.

@@mtc-mobiletechcrisis500 yea I think some turns that they took for it wasn't so Great. Especially with the storage actually. But really want a better one in the same price if possible!!

Yeah, I am looking for the wallpaper too

With my own experience daily driving with a Surface Pro 7 (i7-1065G7, 16G RAM, 256G), it is light enough to carry around everyday for work without strain while it still have some decent horsepower under the hood. I own a 15.2 inch Lenovo T560 and you really do not want to carry that brick with you when you commute or travel around. The combined weight of nearly 3 kilos is not the kind of dead weight you'd like to lug around daily, especially in stormy weather. Even my brother gave up on carrying around his 15 inch Asus gaming laptop and traded in for a far lighter and smaller Matebook X Pro when he needs to be periodically stationed in remote airports. Most gaming laptops drop between 2~3 kilos (power brick included) while ultrabooks mainly land well under 2 kilos max. (My Surface Pro 7 lands around the 1.3~1.5 kilo range with the full accessories.) Trading off the GPU will have it's merit if your work does not need one. On the other hand, if your work really needs a few extra GPUs in your computer, unless you're an entrepreneur, usually your company hardware will be capable of handling that work and you do not need bring an extra gaming laptop to work anyways. (If not, you may consider quitting your job and find a better company who can supply you with the adequate tools to do your tasks.) With that said......I still don't get why Microsoft pushed out such a low spec laptop at the moment. Sure we do trade in some performance for ease of carry and use when we decided to pick an ultrabook, but 4Gs of RAM in 2020 can barely run anything smoothly and literally is almost useless in most cases, either it's for school or work.

You're welcome Tony!

@@MatthewMoniz Lenovo laptops are a lot better and cheaper although they don't look quite as good.

If i can get my hands on one sure

Thansk Boris!

It would cost a lot more if they did

@@MatthewMoniz really? I thought intel said that it would also compete with price. How much more expensive do you think and 11th gen cou cost? Its because I'm looking for a laptop that cna do casual gaming and the 11th gen and amd's 4500U looks like a strong contender.

u can get surface pro 7 which has 8gb ram and more storage Or u are not going to use much , surface laptop go is good.

Same

Get something with a Ryzen processor then

Alienware 👽

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