Microsoft Surface Go
Microsoft Surface Pro
MSRP $799.00At
Windows 10
Windows 10
10.6 inches
12.3 inches
1800 x 1200
2736 x 1824
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Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y
Intel Core i7-7660U
1.6 GHz
2.5 GHz
8 GB
16 GB
Intel HD Graphics 615
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
SSD
SSD
128 GB
512 GB
MicroSD
MicroSD
802.11ac
802.11ac (2.4+5.0 GHz Dual-band)
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Microsoft Surface Go
PROSLow-cost entry point to the Surface line. Build quality is high. Small, lightweight design. Good potential for education use.
CONSMiddling speed. Keyboard is cramped and costs extra. Narrow for on-lap use. No full-size USB ports.
BOTTOM LINEThe well-built Surface Go is the least expensive route into Microsoft's superb Surface tablet line, and the most portable option. Just know that frequent travelers will like it best, and the core processing power is on the light side.
Microsoft Surface Pro
PROSPowerful Core i7 processor with Iris Plus graphics. Improved battery life, kickstand, keyboard cover, and Pen. Higher-than-full-HD screen resolution.
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CONSPricey. Type Cover and Pen sold separately. Lacks USB-C and Thunderbolt 3.
BOTTOM LINEWith faster performance, better battery life, and other welcome improvements over its predecessor, the Microsoft Surface Pro is still the standard bearer for 2-in-1 Windows tablets.
Microsoft Surface Go
Microsoft Surface Go
Microsoft Surface Pro
Microsoft Surface Pro
After a long string of rumors and speculation, Microsoft's Surface Go was finally revealed this week as a lower-cost (and smaller) alternative to the familiar Surface Pros of years past. Starting at $399, this new 10-inch Windows tablet draws influence from the 12.3-inch Surface Pro (which starts at $799), without being a straight-up, shrunken-down clone of the larger tablet that came before it.
To achieve its more appetizing price point, some obvious concessions were made. The processor, for one, is a low-wattage 'Kaby Lake' Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y, as opposed to the Surface Pro's range of Intel Core m3 to Core i7 CPUs. And the base model uses eMMC memory versus a 'true' SSD. That said, due in part to its high-screen resolution, the Surface Go stuffs a premium appearance into a modestly priced package. Better yet, it's compatible with a lot of the same kinds of accessories as the full-fat Surface Pro, so you can expect similar functionality from the Surface Go, despite its watered-down internal components.
Built-in kickstand and all, the Surface Go shares many of the Surface Pro's best qualities, though in some ways it differs. To help you break down what's new and what's not from Microsoft's latest tablet, we've constructed this handy guide pitting the Surface Go against the Surface Pro. From the ports to the pricing to the core components, here is everything you need to know about these two devices before jumping on a purchasing decision between them.
Screen
While the Surface Pro has a higher resolution and pixel density (2,736 by 1,824 pixels total and 267 pixels per inch) than the Surface Go, the Surface Go's PixelSense screen comes close. It's an 1,800-by-1,200-pixel, Gorilla Glass 3-coated display featuring Microsoft's signature (yet controversial) 3:2 aspect ratio. In the event that you have to use all 10 fingers on the screen at once, there's support for 10-point multi-touch in place, as well. What's more, you can sit the Surface Go up on a desk or tray table the same way as you would the Surface Pro, thanks to the familiar built-in kickstand that extends out from the back.
Winner:Surface Pro, on sheer size and resolution.
Connectivity
For the first time on a Microsoft tablet, the Surface Go leverages a single USB Type-C port. You also get a microSDXC card reader, a mini DisplayPort output, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. As is the custom with these slates, the Surface Go uses a proprietary Surface Connect port for charging. Meanwhile, the pricier Surface Pro also has a microSDXC card reader, a mini DisplayPort, a headphone jack, and a Surface Connect port, but you get full-size USB Type-A rather than USB-C (still, just one).
Winner: Tie, but leaning toward the Surface Go from a technical achievement point of view, given that it's so much smaller.
Accessories
The Surface Go and Surface Pro share one key accessory: the Surface Pen. The ordinary Surface Pen stylus ($99.99) comes with neither tablet but is compatible with both tablets. So if you own one from an older Surface, you can carry it over to a Surface Go. The Surface accessory keyboards, though, are specific to the different tablets, which is necessary because of their different sizes. The Surface Pro has its own line of keyboards with a built-in touchpad, as does the Surface Go, but the latter's are dubbed Surface Go Type Covers. A basic-black one costs $99, while a premium $129 version, the Surface Go Signature Type Cover, comes in a choice of three colors.
The Surface Go also shares compatibility with the new Surface Mobile Mouse ($34.99), which connects wirelessly over the Bluetooth 4.2 protocol—no dongle required.
Winner: Tie
Cameras
Of all the features the Surface Go could have omitted, the rear-facing camera seems like a no-brainer. But for it to serve as an aggressive competitor to the iPad and other Windows 10 tablets, both the front- and rear-facing cameras had to remain intact. So, the Surface Go has a 5-megapixel front-facing cam, along with an 8-megapixel rear one. On paper, those are the same camera specs as the Surface Pro. We haven't tested the Surface Go, so we'll have to declare this one a tie.
Winner: Tie
Core Components and Storage
The latest (2017) iteration of the Surface Pro comes in eight different flavors, starting with a 2.6GHz, dual-core Intel Core m3/128GB SSD/4GB RAM option ($799) and capping out at a 2.5GHz, dual-core Intel Core i7/1TB SSD/16GB RAM model ($2,399). The Surface Go is distinctly limited in its configurations. The two Surface Go models share the same Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y processor (a 1.6GHz, dual-core chip), and the entry-level $399 model wields 4GB of RAM and 64GB of eMMC flash memory. Spending $150 more nets you a version of the Surface Go with double the RAM and storage, at 8GB and 128GB, respectively, with the storage being a true SSD, to boot.
Winner: Surface Pro
Pricing
Seeing as the Surface Pro comes in such a wide variety of configurations, the pricing ranges widely:
- Intel Core m3/128GB SSD/4GB RAM - $799
- Intel Core i5/128GB SSD/8GB RAM - $999
- Intel Core i5/256GB SSD/8GB RAM - $1,099
- Intel Core i5/256GB SSD/8GB RAM (LTE) - $1,249
- Intel Core i7/256GB SSD/8GB RAM - $1,299
- Intel Core i7/512GB SSD/16GB RAM - $1,899
- Intel Core i7/1TB SSD/16GB RAM - $2,399
As mentioned in the components section, the Surface Go comes in just two variants, both of which cost less than any one of the Surface Pro models:
- Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y/64GB eMMC/4GB RAM - $399
- Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y/128GB SSD/8GB RAM - $549
The winner is clear in this section, but overall it's up to you to decide what works best for your use case. It's a battle between the portable and inexpensive Surface Go, versus the larger and more powerful Surface Pro. If you need more than what's offered by the 6-watt Pentium processor, the Surface Go may not be fast enough in either of its two renditions. If the Surface Pro is too bulky (or pricey), then the Surface Go is going to be the better bet. Of course, you can find a whole slew of Windows tablets out there, aside from these two options. For the best Windows tablets, take a look at our overall Windows tablet roundup. For the best tablets in general, we've covered those too.
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Microsoft has announced Windows 10 Pro for Workstations. This is a higher-end version of Windows 10 Professional for expensive PCs with powerful hardware. The included features are already available on Windows Server, but are being brought over to a desktop version of Windows.
Here are the features it includes, and why you would want them.
ReFS (Resilient File System)
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Microsoft’s new resilient file system, ReFS for short, “provides cloud-grade resiliency for fault-tolerant storage spaces and manages very large volumes with ease.”
This feature isn’t technically exclusive to Windows 10 Pro for Workstations. You can use it on any edition of Windows 10 along with Storage Spaces. When used along with Storage Spaces, ReFS can detect when data becomes corrupt on a mirrored drive and quickly repair it with data from another drive.
However, ReFS can only be used on Storage Spaces on normal editions of Windows 10. Windows Server 2016 systems can format drives as ReFS without using Storage Spaces, and this offers some performance advantages in certain situations—for example, when using various virtual machine features in Microsoft Hyper-V. But, to really benefit from ReFS, you’ll need a PC with multiple storage drives.
At the moment, Windows 10 can’t actually boot from ReFS, so there’s no way to format your system drive as ReFS. This means ReFS can’t fully replace NTFS. It’s unclear whether Microsoft is fixing this limitation for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, or simply allowing users to format any drive with the ReFS file system.
Persistent Memory
Windows 10 Pro for Workstations supports NVDIMM-N hardware. NVDIMM-N is a non-volatile type of memory. This memory is as fast to access and write to as normal RAM, but the data stored in it won’t be erased when your computer shoots down—that’s what the non-volatile part means.
This allows demanding applications to access important data as quickly as possible. The data doesn’t need to be stored on a slower disk and moved back and forth between memory and storage.
The reason we don’t all use NVDIMM-N memory today is because it’s much more expensive than normal RAM. It’s very high-end hardware right now, and if you don’t have the expensive hardware, you can’t take advantage of this feature anyway.
Faster File Sharing
This edition of Windows 10 includes SMB Direct, a feature also available on Windows Server. SMB Direct requires network adapters that support Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).
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As Microsoft puts it, “Network adapters that have RDMA can function at full speed with very low latency, while using very little CPU.” This aids applications that access large amounts of data on remote SMB (Windows network file sharing) shares over the network. Such applications benefit from faster transfer of large amounts of data, lower latency when accessing data, and low CPU utilization even when transferring a large amount of data very quickly.
Once again, you need high-end hardware that isn’t available on a typical consumer desktop PC to do this. If you don’t have network adapters that support RDMA, this feature won’t help you.
You can check whether your network adapters are RDMA-capable through PowerShell. Right-click the Start button on Windows 10 and select “PowerShell (Admin)” to open PowerShell as Administrator. Type “
Get-SmbServerNetworkInterface
” at the prompt and press Enter. Look under the “RDMA Capable” column to see whether they support RDMA. On a typical desktop PC, they almost certainly won’t.Expanded Hardware Support
Microsoft is allowing Windows 10 Pro for Workstations to run on devices with “high performance configurations”, including server-grade Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors that would normally require Windows Server.
Windows 10 Pro currently only supports up to two physical CPUs and 2 TB of RAM per system, but Windows 10 Pro for Workstations will support up to four CPUs and 6 TB of RAM.
Once again, this feature will only aid people building expensive, high-end professional PCs.
How Do I Get It?
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This new edition of Windows 10 will be available when the Fall Creators Update is released.
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Microsoft hasn’t actually mentioned a price tag for this product. It’s intended for high-end workstation PCs. Microsoft isn’t going to sell it alongside other editions of Windows 10 in retail stores, and they have no reason to. All the features only benefit people who require support for expensive, high-end hardware. High-end workstation PCs will ship with Windows 10 Pro for Workstations installed, and it will likely be available to businesses and other organizations in volume license agreements.
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While Microsoft is adding another edition of Windows 10, most people won’t need to even know it exists. But it’s another way for Microsoft to segment the market for Windows licenses, allowing them to charge more for a version of Windows 10 that will be required on very expensive workstation PCs.
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