It's a shame as it could be the difference between this being successful or not. £579 for the 64GB machine which is that limited is just too much. Maybe it's to push people towards the dearer one which you can understand, but that makes it very expensive in the UK at £709 if you then add in a Type Cover and Pen. I was disappointed to find they are using eMMC for the 64GB version, which would otherwise have been fine for me and I'm sure many people feel the same. I haven't had the time to read the whole of the thread but I'm more than curious as I intended to buy one to compliment my SP4. Would there likely be a significant difference if the tests were run with full Windows 10? I'm finding it a little odd that your test with Windows S mode as I would imagine most people - myself included - will be installing full Windows 10. Unless you have demanding requirements, you won't need 8gb of ram or the SSD. It's a ten inch device, it's for mobility. People are just snobby in the tech community about high end performance. Hell, I've played things like trine 2, need for speed most wanted, and tyranny on my basic atom 4/64 tablet and it's done fine - never hit any real bottlenecks on performance with office stuff, or browsing - go up to the Pentium gold, and it's probably pretty darn capable. Otherwise for everyone else the 4/64 is probably just fine. Heavy media consumption device? Get the extra storage. I'd look at it this way - road warrior productivity machine? Get the extra ram. Indeed, I'd say the bigger selling point of the SSD would be media storage, but one could always get an SD card anyway. If you were playing pubg, or doing a bit of light office work, you're not going to care about 4gb of ram, or the SSD. I'll say this though, the form factor and the CPU don't lend themselves to heavy tasks or large scale multi-tasking anyway. It's the last number that matters for performance, which is about half the speed. You'd expect a tech person to know that sequential read speeds are pretty much irrelevant in terms of performance - only for copying and installing. (Remember, the original Surface 3 shipped with 2GB of RAM as the entry-level!) If you're using the Surface Go for email, some web browsing in Edge, watching Netflix or Hulu, listening to Spotify, or using Microsoft Office I would say no, not really. Does it matter?īenchmarks are one thing, but does any of it matter? As usual with all things PC: it depends. (Personally speaking, I've used laptops with 4GB of RAM and think the hysteria against them is often overblown). Nonetheless, you can hit a wall if running 20 tabs in a browser with some more heavy apps running, but that is the tradeoff for a $399 PC versus something more expensive. Windows 10 does do an excellent job of managing memory even at the 4GB level compared to what it was like years ago. The question if 4GB of RAM is too little depends on your usage and expectations. Without even loading any apps RAM usage is already around 58% capacity. You can add more storage through the micro SD slot under the kickstand for music, videos, documents, photos and more. Other curious bits: Users have just over 40GB of free space out of the entire 64GB for storage.
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