[IT Home Evaluation Room]Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 Review: Huge Hard Quality, Huge Hard Price

In October 2020, Microsoft brought the Surface Laptop Go notebook for the first time, targeting entry-level users, and it became one of the lowest-priced Surface devices at the time.

After nearly two years, Surface Laptop Go finally ushered in a new generation. At the beginning of this month, Surface Laptop Go 2 was officially released. The appearance continued the design of the previous generation, but added the color of fairy tea green, and upgraded the Intel 11th generation Core processing. device.

It is said to be an entry-level positioning, but it is only relative to other Surface products. After all, it is a giant product, and it is blessed by the “Tian” brand belief. Therefore, we have seen Surface Laptop Go 2 pre-sale comes to 5888 yuanthis is still the 8GB+256GB version (it is no exaggeration to say that the author’s mobile phone is higher than it).

So what is the experience of Surface Laptop Go 2, which is positioned for entry but not priced? IT Home has obtained the bright platinum version of Surface Laptop Go 2, and now I will bring you the hands-on experience of this product.

Part 1: Appearance Design

In terms of appearance design, Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 basically continues the previous generation, and the usual high-end and refined sense of Surface product line has also been inherited in this entry-level product.

On the A side, the metal integral molding process is adopted, and the hot silver “Tian” logo in the center has become the only “decoration”.

The B side is a 12.4-inch, 3:2 touch screen. The upper, left and right borders are designed with narrow edges, but a big chin is still inevitable.

This screen is also glossy, although it will inevitably cause reflections, but it does look much higher than the traditional matte screen.

The front 720p high-definition camera with f2.0 aperture is located in the center of the upper frame of the screen, and there are matrix far-field dual microphones on both sides. Unfortunately, this camera does not support Windows Hello unlocking.

The C side is still a minimalist design language. The power button and the fingerprint unlock button are located at the upper right of the keyboard. It supports one-button login mode. The keyboard feels soft, but the key travel reaches 1.3mm. The overall typing experience is quite good. , there will not be the feeling of “one push to the end” that some notebook keyboards do.

The D side, which is also the bottom of Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2, is made of polycarbonate composite resin material, with a layer of skin-friendly material on the surface, and the damping is more obvious. The bottom also adopts a minimalist design language, with a raised rubber at the upper and lower ends, and there are no cooling holes.

Seeing this, some friends may wonder, Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 uses a fanless design? In fact, it is not. The heat dissipation air inlet and outlet of Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 are placed on the shaft part, and the air enters the air on the left and the air exits on the right.

The advantages of this design are, on the one hand, to ensure the integrity of the appearance of the product, after all, the naked heat dissipation holes at the bottom are indeed a bit unpleasant; on the other hand, in some mobile office scenarios, such as placing the notebook on the lap, this design does not It will cause the heat dissipation holes to be blocked.

In terms of interfaces, there are USB-A, Type-C and 3.5mm headphone jacks on the left, and a Surface connect charging interface on the right.

The Type-C port on the left can also be used as a charging port to charge the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2.

The Surface Connect charging port on the right is connected by magnetic attraction, but because the lower part of the fuselage adopts a small inclination design, and the power interface is located at this small inclination angle, and the shape of the Surface Connect port is narrow, long and flat, so When the notebook is placed flat on the desktop, it is a little awkward to insert the interface into the slot, and it is difficult to align and insert it at one time.

High-end design often pays attention to “subtraction”. Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 can be said to be a “artwork” of minimalist design language. The entire body does not have any redundant colors and design elements, including those brand logo stickers.The word simplicity runs through the entire product inside and out.

The thin and light weight is also a plus. Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 is almost only the size of a 4A paper, whileIt also weighs only 1127 grams, which is very suitable for mobile office scenarios. For example, when making PPT presentations, you can hold it with one palm and touch the screen with the other hand. It is worth mentioning that Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 also supports one-handed opening and closing.

Part II: Hardware Test

Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 hardware information is as follows:

Take a look at the screen first.

Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 is equipped with a rare, more office-friendly 3:2 screenthe size is 12.4 inches, the resolution is 1536*1024, it supports ten-point touch, and the brightness is 330 nits.

The 3:2 ratio and multi-touch support are the plus points of this screen, but from the basic parameters,This screen can only be said to be quite satisfactoryespecially with only 148 PPI, it is really not enough, slightly close to the screen,You can feel the grainy feeling. Of course, if you’re used to this resolution, it’s not a big deal.

In terms of display effect, IT Home measured the color gamut of this screen to be 92.1% sRGB, the average deviation of color accuracy was 2.49, and the brightness reached 338nit, which is generally satisfactory.

In terms of core configuration, Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 is equipped with the 11th generation Core i5-1135G7. It is a pity that it is not on the 12th generation.

The i5-1135G7 is mainly aimed at thin and light notebooks and is a mid-range performance choice for thin and light notebooks. It adopts 10nm Super Fin process, four cores and eight threads, main frequency 2.4GHz, turbo frequency 4.2GHz, 8MB L3 cache, TDP 28W.

In addition to the CPU performance improvement, the biggest highlight of the i5-1135G7 is the integrated Xe integrated display, the number of core display units has been upgraded to 80, and with LPDDR4X-4266 memory, it can alsoHas a level close to that of the MX350 alone. For a thin and light notebook like the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2, it is not a big problem to play games like “League of Legends” on a daily basis.

Next, let’s take a look at the benchmark test:

In terms of CPU-Z, the i5-1135G7 scored 536.4 in single-core and 2338.2 in multi-core.

In the Cinebench R20 test, it scored 506 single-core and 1581 multi-core:

In the Cinebench R20 test, it scored 1091 points for single-core and 3870 points for multi-core:

Next is the memory and cache test. In AIDA64, the memory read speed of Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 is 53119MB/s, the write speed is 58285 MB/s, and the copy speed is 52560 MB/s:

In terms of hard disk read and write speed, IT Home measured the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 hard disk read speed of 2345.74MB/s and write speed of 1565.09 MB/s through “CrystalDiskMark”:

It is worth mentioning that the SSD of Surface Laptop Go 2 adopts a detachable design, rather than being welded on the motherboard, so you can also manually upgrade this SSD later, after all, the size of 256GB, and then look at the price of nearly 6K, put it aside Who, who is uncomfortable!

Going back to the running score, in general, the processor performance and storage performance of Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 can meet the daily needs of thin and light users. For a thin and light notebook,There is no performance short board problem.

Then IT Home did the “3D Mark” test on the Surface Laptop Go 2 to test the Xe core display performance of the i5-1135G7. The results show that its Time Spy score is 1154, which is in line with the core display level of the i5-1135G7. This performance is basically no problem in handling general light-weight graphics tasks or playing some small online games.

Then IT House conducted a game test. The default 1080P image quality of “League of Legends”, in non-combat scenes, Surface Laptop Go 2 can basically be stable at around 80 frames:

In the team battle scene, the frame rate will drop to about 50 frames:

From this point of view, the integrated display performance of the i5-1135G7 is enough for the Surface Laptop Go 2 to deal with “lightweight” online games such as “League of Legends”.

In addition to the game, IT Home also conducted a “single-bake” test on the i5-1135G7 on the Surface Laptop Go 2. As shown in the figure below, the single-bake FPU, after 20 minutes, its processor still reached 20W or more. Power consumption, the CPU temperature is around 82° at this time:

After 30 minutes of single baking, the power consumption of the processor drops to about 10W, and the temperature is about 61°:

From this point of view, as a thin and light notebook, the performance release of Surface Laptop Go 2 is relatively “fierce”.

Finally, it is also the application scenario that tests thin and light notebooks the most – battery life. IT House tested the battery life of Surface Laptop Go 2 through “PCMark 10”.

As shown in the figure below, in the “modern office” test scenario, when the power saving mode is turned on, the Surface Laptop Go 2 achieves a running score of 6449 points and a time of 11 hours and 20 minutes, which is quite good for a thin and light business notebook.

In general, Surface Laptop Go 2 is sufficient for daily office and productivity needs in terms of performance, and it can also bring good battery life when going out.

Write at the end:

After the experience, the biggest feeling that Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 gives me is mainly from the design level: on the one hand, the simple, exquisite and high-end design makes people love it; The product is not afraid of the excellent genes of diversified office scenarios to carry forward.

Of course, the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 It is a fact that the price is not high(Microsoft seems to have never considered the price/performance ratio), but I have to say that for such a thin, portable and “entry-level” product, its performance is not a short board, and it is completely sufficient for daily office and light entertainment. of.

In general, ifYou have a special affection and affection for Microsoft Surfacethen Surface Laptop Go 2 can also let you feel the charm and belief from Microsoft Surface products with a relatively small budget.

As for the belief here – if you see Microsoft’s “Tian” logo shining in the light, it can still produce inexplicableexcitement and anticipationI think, you already know the answer.