This helps support our work, but does not affect what we cover or how, and it does not affect the price you pay. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. Indeed, Zac Bowden says “I wouldn’t expect any real design changes to it”.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. The Surface Go 2 increased the display from 10in to 10.5in without changing the total footprint of the device, but that’s the only design change we’ve seen. Thinner bezels could allow Microsoft to fit an 11in display here, but it may be reluctant to make a budget device look just as good as the premium Surface Pro.

However, the battery depleted much faster during our review testing, so hopefully the 28Wh capacity is increased too. Moving to ARM should help benefit battery life, improving Microsoft’s claims of up to 11 hours on a single charge. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be from the latest Raptor Lake range, with the Surface Go not always using Intel’s latest silicon. However, Bowden says “there will likely still be Intel SKUs” on high-end models and for business users. In a March 2023 Windows Central video, he suggested it could replace the Intel Pentium chip on entry-level models will be replaced with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c or 7c Gen 2. But will Microsoft make the move to an ARM-based Qualcomm chip instead? In a July 2022 video, Windows Central’s Zac Bowden describes it as “pretty likely”, but “not 100% confirmed yet”, going on to say that it’s something Microsoft is considering internally.

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