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Neither ZDNET nor the author are compensated for these independent reviews. 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. Microsoft provided me with a Surface Go 2 keyboard for the purposes of review, and it's a fine, but very small device.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. That means there's no bundled keyboard, which you'll have to buy separately. The classic catch with any Microsoft Surface device remains true for the Surface Go 2, because it's sold as a tablet competitor to the likes of the iPad. In terms of expansion, there's a single MicroSD slot nestled just under the rear hinge, although you could always hook up a USB C external drive for added storage too. Microsoft does produce higher-end variants of the Surface Go 2 with integrated LTE, but that wasn't the model I tested with. It's still not as sharp or pleasing a screen as you'd find on an iPad Air or iPad Pro, but for most workers on a Surface Go 2, it's a welcome upgrade. Microsoft has managed this logically enough by shrinking the side bezels a little, but it has also upped the resolution to a much more pleasing 1,920 x 1,280. So what's changed? The big design story for the Surface Go 2 is in the display, which has a 10.5-inch display where the original only offered up 10 inches of screen space.
You even still get just the one USB C side port, sitting just below a standard 3.5mm headphone jack and above the Microsoft Surface Connect charging socket on the right-hand side of the tablet. You get the same iconic Surface kickstand at the back, understandably smaller than on a regular Surface device. It's marginally heavier at 544g for the Wi-Fi model compared to the original model's 522g, but you're never going to notice that extra 22g in real-world use. It measures 245 x 175 x 8.3mm which is exactly the same size as the original Surface Go. The first generation Surface Go sold itself as the shrunk Surface equivalent, and at first glance you might think that Microsoft hasn't changed anything in its second iteration.
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