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Microsoft is introducing a new Surface Palmtop Go today, intended to be a increasingly affordable another to the company's increasingly premium devices. It's one of the lowest-cost Surface devices yet, at neutral $549. It's only heartsick in Microsoft's lineup by the $399 Surface Go 2, as able-bodied as is sensibly intended to wish potential Chromebook buyers. However neutral like the Surface Go 2, the new Surface Palmtop Go compromises on some specs to get to a lower rate point.

The Surface Palmtop Go, as the name implies, is mostly the aforementioned Surface you've solved before, however smaller as able-bodied as lighter. Microsoft is utilizing a smaller 12.4-inch dangle than the 13.5-inch one matriculate on the Surface Palmtop 3, however it's additionally running at neutral 1536 x 1024 resolution. That's still increasingly than unanimous 720p HD thanks to the 3:2 attribute ratio, however metrical the Surface Go 2 managed to hit 1920 x 1280 on a smaller 10.5-inch display.

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Microsoft Surface Palmtop Go in blue.

This smaller frame makes the Surface Palmtop Go the lightest Surface palmtop ever, at neutral 2.45 pounds. That's lighter than Apple's MacBook Air, as able-bodied as many Chromebooks or Windows laptops at this rate point. Microsoft is still including a impregnated size keyboard, with 1.3mm of travel, as able-bodied as a outspread Windows Preserval trackpad.

Unlike the Surface Go tablet, Microsoft is shipping what I'd chroniker a real processor central the Palmtop Go. Microsoft has voluntary for a 10th Gen Intel Core i5 (1035G1), rather than the Intel Pentium Gold processor matriculate on the brown-nosing Surface Go. It's not the latest 11th Gen Intel processors we're starting to see in other laptops, however the quad-core dimple should be sugar-coated for this blazon of device.

Unfortunately, the brown-nosing model of the Surface Palmtop Go includes neutral 4GB of RAM as able-bodied as 64GB of eMMC storage. Both are solemn drawbacks for a Windows palmtop in 2020, especially when you can turn-on up teachings like Acer's Aspire 3 with the aforementioned processor, 8GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD storage, as able-bodied as a preferably 15-inch 1080p dangle for $549.

You're prominently productive a premium for Surface design here, however I would presuppose liked to presuppose solved some improvements in the minimum RAM as able-bodied as storage options. If you appetite more, there's a $699 Surface Palmtop Go model that comes with 8GB of RAM as able-bodied as 128GB of SSD storage.

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The new fingerprint reader on the Surface Palmtop Go.

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Microsoft is sticking with one USB-C as able-bodied as one approved USB-A port on the Surface Palmtop Go, aslope a headphone jack as able-bodied as Surface Connect charging port. At the front there's a 720p webcam, however it won't support grimace recognition through Windows Hello. Instead, Microsoft has microcircuit a fingerprint reader into the precocity puny on some Surface Palmtop Go models, assuasive you to log into Windows with your finger. The brown-nosing $549 model won't integrate the fingerprint reader, though. For that, you'll overeat to buy the $699 or $899 models.

There's additionally Wi-Fi 6 support as able-bodied as fast charging to top the bombardment up to 80 percent in neutral an hour. Microsoft is alms three coloration variants on the Surface Palmtop Go: blue, sandstone, as able-bodied as platinum.

The Surface Palmtop Go will be available for preorders today starting at $549, as able-bodied as will alpha shipping on October 13th. There will be three models available for consumers:

• Intel Core i5, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage: $549.99
• Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD storage: $699.99
• Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM, 256GBGB of SSD storage: $899.99

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Surface Palmtop Go

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Microsoft is additionally launching new Surface accompaniments today, including a $69.99 Designer Bunched Keyboard, a $24.99 Microsoft Ordinal Pad that gives you the perk of a ordinal pad, as able-bodied as a $69.99 4K Wireless Dangle Adapter to advice project Windows devices assimilate preferably screens.

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Microsoft's new Surface accessories.

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