Streaming Avengers: Endgame on battery power, the laptop dropped to 78 per cent in the first hour, 59 per cent in the second and 39 per cent in the third. Image: Zachariah Kelly/Gizmodo Australiaįinally, in our battery test, the Surface Laptop 2 Go performed just about as well as we expected. This isn’t a problem, but it is indicative that this laptop would likely struggle with higher-end games or graphics applications, even at their lowest settings. Usually, we make the computer run Forza Horizon 5 to test out graphics capabilities, but the Surface Laptop 2 Go was unable to do this, crashing whenever the benchmark tool was run. Like the Acer Aspire AV15-51, the Surface Laptop 2 Go’s weakness is graphics processing, with only an integrated Intel Iris Xe GPU. I noticed this when using Canva, Gmail, WordPress and web browsing all at once, with the laptop stuttering and going slow at times when trying to download, save work or upload files. My job involves having multiple Chrome tabs open across two monitors and this laptop only started to stutter when put under significant pressure.

Get it on sale and dont expect too much.Daily use-wise, this laptop didn’t struggle too much. A 13in mba is a whole inch wider, the tiny new xps 13 is still. Yea its alot slower than cheaper 13in laptops but those are noticeably wider. Its honestly not that bad if you're looking for a decent laptop under 13in, and its really the only one on the market.

What the Laptop Go 2 is, though, is a small, lightweight computer with a comfortable keyboard, trackpad, and screen, wrapped in a nice-looking and -feeling package. With my standard workload and the screen set to about 200 nits, I averaged less than five hours of use between charges. Despite its small size and weight, the Laptop Go 2 is not a fanless computer, and its small fan is audible and often annoying.īattery life is perhaps the biggest problem I have with the Surface Laptop Go 2, however.

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