The keyboard has a decent amount of key travel and a good layout, with Home/End/Page Up/Page Down being accessible via Fn+Left/Right/Up/Down but also dedicated Home/End/Page Up/Page Down keys on the F9-F12 keys which I find quite useful since the keyboard layout is somewhat small.

When using the device as a tablet, the cover can be rotated behind the screen which causes it to automatically stop sending keyboard and touchpad events until it is rotated back around. During normal use, the cover can be positioned flat on a surface or slightly raised up about 3/4' near the screen for better ergonomics. When the cover is folded up against the screen, it sends an ACPI sleep signal and is held to the screen magnetically. The cover attaches magnetically along the bottom edge of the device and presents USB-attached keyboard and touchpad devices. I opted for the “cobalt blue” cover which has a soft, cloth-like alcantara material. The keyboard and touchpad are located on a separate, removable slab called the Surface Go Signature Type Cover which is sold separately. The bezel is quite large, especially for such a small screen, but it makes sense on a device that is meant to be held, to avoid accidental screen touches. Its 10' diagonal 3:2 touchscreen is covered with Gorilla Glass and has a resolution of 1800x1200. The tablet measures 9.65' across, 6.9' tall, and 0.3' thick. (I went with the latter.) Both ship with an Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y processor which is not very fast, but it’s certainly usable.

The Surface Go is available in two hardware configurations: one with 4Gb of RAM and a 64Gb eMMC, and another with 8Gb of RAM with a 128Gb NVMe SSD. Recently Microsoft announced a smaller, cheaper version of its Surface tablets called Surface Go which piqued my interest. I used a Dell Mini 9 for a long time back in the netbook days and was recently using an 11' MacBook Air as my primary development machine for many years.

OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go, FreeBSD Foundation August Update, What’s taking so long with Project Trident, pkgsrc config file versioning, and MacOS remnants in ZFS code.įor some reason I like small laptops and the constraints they place on me (as long as they’re still usable).

Freebsd for notebooks