Disclosure: Some links on this page are monetized by the Skimlinks, Amazon, Rakuten Advertising, and eBay, affiliate programs. All prices are subject to change, and this article only reflects the prices available at time of publication.
Rumor has it that Microsoft will unveil several new Surface products this fall, including new members of the Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Laptop Go, and Surface Go lineups.
The next-gen Surface Go should be the smallest, most affordable of the bunch. But according to Windows Central’s Zac Bowden, it’ll bring a big performance upgrade over the previous-gen Surface Go 3 thanks to the move to an Intel Processor N200 chip.
The Intel N200 is a 6-watt, 4-core, 4-thread processor based on Intel’s Alder Lake-N architecture, and benchmarks show that it could bring a significant boost in single-core performance over the Pentium Gold 6500Y and Core i3-10100Y chips used for the Surface Go 3… and even bigger gains in multi-core performance.
Alder Lake-N chips are still very much positioned as low-power, low-cost chips for entry-level computers, though, so don’t expect it to be competitive with the last 15+ watt chips from Intel or AMD. But it’s still a nice spec bump for Microsoft’s most affordable tablet line. Surface Go 3 prices currently range from $400 to $680.
Earlier this
