As I listened to Rage Against the Machine's 'Guerilla Radio,' and the rest of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 soundtrack, I noticed that Zack de la Rocha's vocals came through clear, while the guitar riffs, drums and synths all sounded accurate and correct. The Surface Laptop Go's speakers (which emit sound from under the keyboard) sound pretty great, and much better than you'd expect from audio coming through your keys. It also speedily responded to Windows 10's navigation gestures. The Surface Laptop Go's 3.9 x 2.6-inch trackpad accurately registered my input as I navigated around the desktop. The keys offer a pleasant, but subtle, amount of feedback as well. Each key quietly clicks down under pressure, making the Surface Laptop Go perfect for typing around others. While its keys are a little smaller than you get with most other laptops, the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go offers a joyous typing experience. Microsoft Surface Laptop Go: Keyboard and touchpad The Surface Laptop Go's 12.4-inch touchscreen display provided snappy reaction times to my taps and swipes as I adjusted windows and opened the Start menu and Action Center. That being said, if this panel got a bit brighter, I'm sure the aforementioned reflection wouldn't have been so noticable, and that it would have a wider range of viewing angles, as the panel darkens at around 35 degrees to the left and right. Still, it beats the 303-nit mainstream category average by a slight margin.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop Go doesn't really match up on brightness, maxing out at 319 nits, which isn't as bright as the 370-nit Zenbook 13 or the 368-nit Pixelbook Go. It's slightly below those of the Zenbook 13 (108%), Pixelbook Go (108%), but not to a point where I'd deduct points.

But as I took photos of the Surface Laptop Go for this review, I noted a lot of myself in the reflections from the screen.Īccording to our Klein K10-A colorimeter, the Surface Laptop Go produces 103% of the sRGB spectrum, a respectable rate that beats the 91% mainstream laptop average. Homelander's red-white-and-blue cape appeared with the correct darkness, and the beams shooting from his eyes hit with a proper mix of red and white. Watching a clip from The Boys season 2 on the Surface Laptop Go, I noticed that the show's slightly-tweaked colors reproduced correctly.

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