The price is about half that of a Surface Pro. You can't compare it to discounted Surface Pros now, because they will refresh at some point. I don't see what all the hoopla is about here with saying its DOA. People have different needs, and sizes/choices is a good thing.
On another forum more focused on Tablet PCs, a lot of folks with Surface 3s are seeing this as a good follow-on.
Yeah but those bezels... Lol, seriously what $399 tablet has bezels that large in 2018, or even in 2015? To find bezels that big you have to search on Amazon for those $80 Chinese tablets. Samsung's Tab A from last year has nicer bezels and is cheaper, and the 2018 model pics have leaked and have even thinner bezels. Of course the ipad has nicer bezels, and if rumors are true will have slim bezels all around, with the base model comparable in price to the surface Go. Other tablet makers have made strides in thinner bezels, some of the windows snapdragon tablets and other android oem's like Huawei. Buying a marked down surface pro is even competition for them, MS just had a $200 off sale and that would bring the lowest model not too far away from the Go pricing. The surface pro line won't refresh for a while, my estimate is at least another 8 months, but at that point they will be giving away the surface GO's because of having so much unsold inventory, so maybe it will be an OK deal at $199 IF benchmarks and real world use show it runs decently and the battery isn't as bad as anticipated.
No, I will continue to say that these bezels are terrible in 2018, Microsoft and Panos should be thoroughly embarrassed by them. It's not just aesthetics either, as larger bezels means a larger device. For the device being larger because of the humungous bezels they could at least have stuck more battery in there, but this actually has LESS battery than the surface pro and still lags FAR behind the battery life of other ecosystems.
This is DOA, just like Windows RT was DOA.
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Holding the device in landscape mode:
- The Surfaces Go has 0.6" side bezels while the iPad has 0.8" bezels for the fingerprint sensor and the 1.2MP Facetime camera on the other side .
- The Surfaces Go has 0.7" top/bottom bezels while the iPad has 0.4" bezels. The bottom bezel on the GO is this size to allow the KB to attach and the top is made symmetrical to the bottom but has the additional Windows Hello sensor etc.
- The Surface Go is 70% screen, compared to 73% for the iPad.
Those measurements are actually significant IMO. You are saying the top/bottom bezels are nearly TWICE the size. The side bezels are about 20% larger in 2017, but we are all expecting those bezels to shrink on the ipad in 2018. Sometimes small measurements make a bigger impact than what you would expect from specifications. Take the iPhone X as an example, the screen to body ratio isn't as good as many other phones, but because of how the bezels are configured the impact is stunning.
The other thing to consider is that windows requires more screen space because of the UI. Having the taskbar on the bottom takes up space, as does the title bar of most programs and apps. UWP apps can go fullscreen though, but it's an extra step and sometimes switching apps knocks them out of full screen. That's why I advocate windows UI being great on my surface pro because it's big enough with smaller bezels. But I don't really like Windows on my 8" tablet because so little usable screen is left after windows UI covers it up.
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Seems pretty similar, although I expect Apple to shrink their bezels in the next round. Personally, I odn't mind bezel on a tablet because you have something to hold. You don't need that on a phone or display, but with tablets you often need to hold it by the edges and its annoying if you end up hitting something.
Yeah but how big do you need the bezels to be to hold something? Although I'd wish for something smaller, I think the surface pro bezels are decent and competitive. I would at least have hoped for something that size, and for $399 I would not have complained.
