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When the battery is running low, you can fast charge the Go to an 80% charge in just over an hour. We hope to see comparable results when we put it through our own runtime test. The Surface Laptop Go is rated at 13 hours of battery life. We also recommend most people upgrade from the stock 64GB of eMMC storage to a 128GB or 256GB SSD.
We suggest upgrading to 8GB of LPDDR4x memory (or 16GB if you're a commercial customer). It just isn't enough for running full Windows 10 (once you disable S mode). I recognize that this is a mainstream laptop, but it's strange to be talking about a 10th Gen chip when so many other newly announced laptops boast 11th Gen processors.Ī bigger performance concern is the 4GB of RAM in the base model. But as you might have noticed, this is a 10th Gen processor, not the new 11th Gen Tiger Lake chips Intel just announced.
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