Surface Go provides customers with a less expensive way to experience many of the benefits of Surface Pro. But as such, it is also ripe with compromise. Here, I'd like to examine those compromises and how Surface Go compares to other Surface PCs, both past and present.

Put simply, Surface Go is a surprise. No, not quite the level of surprise of, say, Andromeda. But a surprise nonetheless, and one that comes with both positive and negative connotations. To understand these, let's look at the good ("Go") and the bad ("No go").