While its Pentium and i3 options are not ideal for all of these tasks (Alder Lake Y should help considerably in this area for future Go models), they still allow the Go 3 to go unrivaled as far as productivity is concerned in its form factor - which is exactly what sets it apart from the competition. You can plug just about anything into it (external drive, network cable, dock, display, printer, camera, scanner, legacy equipment, etc.) and it can run essentially any software (virtual machines, development tools, CAD programs, image/video/audio editors, scientific tools, games, etc.).

As I stated with the Surface Pro 8, the Go 3 can do just about anything that its hardware will allow it to do. Just look for what you would use a lot - youll most probably be editing faster. Yes, there are lots of Word shortcuts, but you dont have to memorize them all. The author doesn't even bother to properly address software in the article and just goes by the assumption that 'Windows = bad, iPadOS = good'. You dont have to be a master of Microsoft Word to make use of some useful shortcuts.

These Surface vs iPad articles are extremely low effort and riddled with errors (some examples: the author uses the i3-10100 as a sub in for the i3-10100Y, they don't mention that the Surface Go 3 has microSDXC, etc.). The author appears to know very little about Surface devices and probably just took a glance at the spec sheet (and not a very long one at that).Īgain, at the end of the day, the Surface Go 3 is a full x86 based Windows 11 device. That specification table… did anyone bother to proof the format/structure once it was published?