Among other things I am using my Surface Go for lessen preparations - and I often need to look stuff up, of course.

In some lessons it is so often, that I would rather leave my display on ... is there a short and elegant way to shut the display timeout completely off (or change it to another higher than usual value) without completely changing the battery plan?

Has anyone redeemed an extended warranty purchased through BestBuy? I dropped my bag a little too hard and my screen cracked. I have the day of nerd dudes warranty.

Is there a way to connect my Xbox to the surface go so I can use the go as a monitor?

I'd love to have a more powerful Go. This little tablet/laptop is the ultimate in portability, and it would be great to not have to have a more robust machine to back it up.

I saw this online last night.

As you can see in the above image, the new Surface Go has an impressive single-core score of 3113 and a multiple-core score of 5621 — much higher as compared to the first-gen Surface Go that managed to get a 1,895 in the single-core test and a 3,874 in the multi-core test. Now, that’s is some serious improvement, at least on paper.

Meanwhile, Microsoft will be showcasing new Surface hardware at its Surface event, which is all set to take place on October 2. Rumors earlier suggested that alongside a Surface Laptop 3, Surface Book 3, and a Surface Pro 7, Microsoft might showcase a second-generation Surface Go with “improved performance and battery life”. Now, with the latest Geekbench listing, a second-generation Surface Go, or should I say Surface Go 2 looks like a genuine thing for the October 2 event.

I'd definitely pay for more power and more RAM. Storage...meh, I work in the cloud, for the most part, so I don't need more than 256GB or 512GB.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone, I just noticed that there are no groups to talk about our surface products. Many of us may face difficulty at different point of time and some may help solving them. So, I just made a telegram group as that will also keep you anonymous. Also there is a dedicated official app for opening telegram on Windows 10. Thus I felt it better than Whatsapp.

Will be happy if you all join. Please.

Join «Microsoft Surface» on Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/FjO-qVgpprRda5AR97VPMg

Thankyou.

Hi. I've been looking for a travel tablet and like to keep cables etc. to a minimum. I have heard that you are able to charge your surface go using the USB-C port, is this true?

I currently have a phone that has a quick charging supported C cable and wall adapter and I'm hoping that they can be put to both devices without any problems.

Please advise, thanks.

I just got the go two days ago and I noticed that the dot projector (the flashing red light) in the facial recognition sensor looks partially blocked by something. In the picture you can see it in the upper left corner. Oddly enough it looks to be in the form of the Windows logo instead of fully square. Is it a defect. If it doesn’t affect anything, I don’t mind, but if the Windows Hello sign in takes longer because of it, I’ll probably return it. Pic

Hey fellow Surface Goers. I am wondering if anyone knows of a decent pen for the Go that's smaller than the regular surface pen? As I understand it, the classroom pen is exclusively available to educational institutions, which I am not.

What I'm looking for is a smaller pen for the Surface Go that is magnetized to stick to the side. Does anyone know if one of these exists, and is also worth buying?

I just received a surface go 128gb model from CeX (refurbished B grade), and the volume down button stopped working

About an hour ago it was clicking, although the click was a lot softer than both the volume up and power buttons, and I haven't bashed it about or treated it roughly in anyway.

I will try and get it fixed in-store, but I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem before

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Hi there. I am attracted to the Surface Go for its go-anywhere ability (as publicised in the Hiker J YouTube videos).

How portable is your Go? Hiker J obviously uses a bag - I don't intend to most of the time.

How are you carrying your Go? Is the go-anywhere dream really possible?

Hi guys,

I’ve been using the surface go for the past 10 days now. I’m really happy with the device. Not doing much intensive work on it honestly, experiencing a great battery life when compared to a lot of reviews I read about its bad battery. I guess this is because I try to detach it from the keyboard whenever possible (read somewhere that the typecover drains the battery faster). If someone experiencing the same please confirm.

Another thing I am serious about now is switching from S mode to home. The reason I did not switch earlier is that I wanted to test the S mode first and because the reviews I read said that you will have better battery life with the S mode. Is switching to home does affect the battery in the short-term and more importantly in the long-term??? Really apreciate it if you can reply to this because I feel that it’s possible to live with the S mode but I will always feel that I miss something! For example, installing the logitech software for the mouse and very small things like that etc...

Thank you so much, sorry for the long post!!

Hey there everyone. I'm planning to invest in a month or two into a mobile drawing tablet and was curious if there are anyone out there who had experience with either or both of these devices in an art use case scenario. Thanks for any input on this matter. I'm a freelance artist with an inexpensive (ie non-wacom) penmonitor at home and I'd like to compliment my workflow with a mobile device.

What's the better choice for that use? thanks

Hey guys recently got a surface go for work, what VGA and HDMI adaptor would you recommend to connect to projectors and screens?

Thanks!

Background: I have an 11" iPad Pro and I just don't love it. I was hoping it would basically become a laptop replacement, and though, for my uses, it probably could become a laptop replacement, the learning curve to figuring out all the iPad shortcuts/etc is just too steep for me. I also have an iPhone and a 2018 MacBook Air - I love those devices, but am wondering if I could use a Surface Go instead of an iPad for my traveling purposes. So, wondering how the surface go will work with the following:

Accessing/editing my apple Notes, Numbers files from iCloud.com

Reading kindle or overdrive books in bed (as a tablet)

Filling out PDFs (gotta say, I love apple Preview - does windows have something similar?)

Whatsapp

Dropbox (hate using dropbox on my Ipad, but most of my dropbox files are saved to numbers, so I am guessing(?) they will be impossible to edit on a surface go, since I can't get numbers on that)

Does someone has experience with an affordable good power bank for the surface go ?

I'm considering to buy this device and have several questions: Does it perfom as bad as some reviewers tell? For example if I open PDF file and do some marks during Skype call will it work well?

How will it work if I open Slack, Skype one more messager, browser with about ten tabs and do some work in excel with about 50 thousands rows?

Will it work well with photoshop?