Author: Ewan Spence / Source: Forbes
Microsoft’s Surface Go is its latest slice of PC hardware designed to work with its cloud-based services and demonstrate competency to new market sector. But has Microsoft changed its approach to hardware or is the Surface Go a sealed PC masquerading as a tablet?
The team at iFixit decided to open up the Surface Go to find out.
Curiously, much of the Surface Go is designed like a tablet. There’s no fan to direct heat away from the CPU, neither are there any heat pipes that can be used to channel the heat away from the components. Instead thermal paste and a copper heatsink have been employed. That’s much closer to a tablet than the choices made by higher end Surface Pro machines.
Then there’s the battery. For sure it is smaller than the Surface Pro and Surface Book 2 machines, but at 26.12 even the battery in the iPad 5 and 6, at 32.9 Wh, offer more power. In terms of basic specifications, the Go is clearly a Windows 10 tablet, rather than…
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