I've got a Surface Go 1 and it's kind of just "ok". It's not a great tablet or laptop. It's useful in that it can run Windows-only stuff in a portable form fact

I've got a Surface Go 1 and it's kind of just "ok". It's not a great tablet or laptop. It's useful in that it can run Windows-only stuff in a portable form factor but I tend to avoid using it for daily tasks. I've gone through several Surface tablets going back to the Pro 1. I'd hoped they would be nice portable Windows machines for tasks I need Windows for but small enough they would be easy to tote around or put away on a shelf. Due to their size they are (for me) shitty tablets. The Pro 1 and 3 were just too bulky to use for more than a few minutes as a tablet and the keyboard covers are just finger trampolines and make terrible laptops. So they were just crappy desktops I could fold up. The Surface 3 was a little better as a tablet but a shitty laptop. Finally the Surface Go was a decent tablet, still a shitty laptop and foldable desktop but more capable as a tablet. The Go is my last Surface though. It turned out to be my best deal since I got it on some clear-the-channel sale so got the 8GB model for like $250. Last fall I bit the bullet and just got a cheap gaming laptop on a Black Friday sale. I was able to stuff in 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. It's at least a good laptop and a decent desktop and I can still put it on a shelf. It beats all the Surfaces I've owned for Windows-only tasks. The Surfaces look nice and have some of the best Windows pen interfaces you'll find but they are just too compromised. Their attempt to be tablets makes them shitty laptops and then they're pretty poor tablets.