Microsoft Surface Go: Direct competition to the iPad?

10 Jul 2018

Steve Wright

The Microsoft Surface Go was today announced, a cheaper, powerful miniaturised version of the Surface Pro.

Weighing just 520 grams and 8.3mm thick, the Surface Go will retail for $599 AUD and feature a 7th Gen Intel Pentium Gold Processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The unit also possess a USB-C port, headphone jack and has the ability to expand storage.

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More expensive models are available, offering up to 8GB of memory and 256GB of storyage.

Microsoft is now accepting pre-orders for the Surface Go here.

What do you make of the device? Is it a competitor to the iPad?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.