Smitten is a good word to use with the Surface Laptop Go 2. But the compromises made in 2020 are still part of the core design of the Surface Laptop Go 2, which means that the beautiful but flawed Laptop Go has been brought up to the specs of the 2022 laptop market while still offering the same beautiful but flawed vision. Two years later, Microsoft has updated the performance specs on the Surface Laptop Go 2, certainly keeping up the pace of performance with the competition (and perhaps pushing forward a little more than the original Laptop Go compared to the competition). The original Surface Laptop Go felt like a laptop that had too many small compromises to get to a sub $600 price, and these compromises become more apparent as you moved up the portfolio where the competition from the likes of Acer and Asus offered better choices in specifications and design materials.

Realistically the 8GB/128GB model at $599 is a comfortable place to start, and you can double the storage for $100 to get an 8/256 model. Pricing on the consumer versions of the laptop starts at $599 for the 4GB RAM 128 GB SSD storage, which of course comes with a caveat on the 4 GB of RAM offering little headroom for apps to work with. Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 Ewan Spence

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