The keyboard will use the Surface’s battery to power it’s backlight yet doesn’t impede the battery life whatsoever. To give yourself the full laptop experience you can get a (separately sold) magnetic clip-on softly textured and styled chiclet keyboard. Both front and back camera’s come in at 1080p. Video calls or conferencing will see you at your full HD glory. The screen does have a chunky bezel to it though. Out of the box with the lighter, crispier Windows 11 Home Edition, Microsoft’s newest operating system, the Surface Go3 is super light, vivid with a high-res (1920×1080) 10.5 inch PixelSense touchscreen and dual audio. The Intel Iris on-board graphics chip is enough for all media to display, except for basically any form of gaming. Microsoft have added in enough RAM to see you multitasking like a pro. The Surface Go3, as mentioned, is built for lighter use, students, teachers, administrative workers and the pricing of the Go3 also reflects the lesser capacity. Via the USB-C port you can add an external monitor (with an adaptor not included, or a monitor that supports USB-C directly).

There’s the magnetic charger slot, a 3.5mm mic or headphone jack and one USB-C socket. So for a few extra dollars you can expand your internal storage by getting yourself an external card.Īs the base model has 128GB you may want to expand. I’m happy to see that Microsoft has retained this in the Go3. Lay it flat on a table, desk or lap or use the kick-stand and prop it upright for video calls, media binging or viewing presentations, the Surface Go3 is as versatile as it is functional.Ī little known feature of the Surface tablets is that under the back flap there’s a microSD slot. Slated more towards students and lighter PC users that need Windows on the go, the Surface Go3 has Intel’s latest (11th gen) i3 processors coupled with 256GB internal storage and 8GB RAM. Nine years in, the Surface range has adapted and expanded to all users, so here and now we have the Surface Go3. What started out as an interactive (and super expensive) coffee table back in 2008, Microsoft’s Surface tablet hybrid has been around since 2012.

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