Microsoft Surface Go outperforms Apple iPad in 5 points

Four days after it was officially launched on the market, Microsoft's new computer, Surface Go, gave a strong indication that it may be the first product to appear on the market, and it competes with unprecedented strength with the famous Apple iPad tablets that have been on the throne of this category of computers for years. several. "Surface Go" outperforms "Apple iPad" in five points, according to an analysis of the "BC World" website.

"Surface Go" came with strengths related to containing the specifications of the personal computer, facial recognition technology, speed, the cheapest price, and video display, which made it a device that carries the design and price of the tablet, and the strength and performance of the full-featured laptop, and almost adds a new category of computers. It did not exist before, which makes it more like a blow launched from "empty spaces" not involved in the battle, to hit the "iPad" directly.

These results are the focus of a series of reports and analyzes presented by analysts and experts on this device across major technology sites globally, and reviewed by "Emirates Today" since its official launch on the ninth of this July, the most prominent of which was the analysis of the "BC World" website, which focused on the reasons that He puts Surface Go in a better position in his battle with the iPad, and he puts it in five reasons.

"Surface Go"

The new device, "Surface Go", is a tablet computer, with a design consistent with the "Surface" series of devices produced by Microsoft, but at a lower cost, and specifications closer to portable computers.

Microsoft said on its official blog that the idea behind the Surface Go is to provide a new, smaller, lighter and less expensive device that offers the user clear answers to everything he wants in a 10-inch tablet and the performance of a powerful, full-featured laptop.

In terms of design, the Surface Go is similar to the Microsoft Surface Pro, but with more rounded edges and wider bezels around the screen, unlike most tablet and smartphone makers this year. The cover supports a slim keyboard that holds a trackpad alternative to the mouse, and also supports the digital pen, but both the pen and the cover must be purchased independently by the user, if desired, and both are priced at about $ 100, and these are the main weaknesses in the new machine.

The Surface Go comes with a backrest that allows the user to change the angle of use and many different positions, and it works with the “Pentium Gold 4415 Y” processor, which is one of the seventh generation of “Intel” processors because it is the most suitable in balancing performance, providing longer battery life and less heat, and a processor “HD graphics 615”, electronic memory “RAM” with a capacity between four and eight gigabytes, and a battery that works for nine hours before needing to be recharged.

The device has a five-megapixel front camera and an eight-megapixel rear camera, with one microphone and “stereo” headphones that support surround sound technology, and supports both “Wi-Fi” technology and “Bluetooth 4.1” technology, with a “USB-C” port. A 3.5 mm headphone jack, a keyboard port, and an external memory card reader.

The device works on the Windows 10S operating system, meaning that users are only able to install programs from the App Store only, and users of the device can move to the full version of Windows 10 for free.

Microsoft has put the device for sale by pre-booking in several markets, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria and Belgium, noting that it will be available in the coming weeks in other markets, at a price of $ 400 for the version with 64 GB of storage and four GB of memory.

Microsoft has improved the capabilities of the Surface Go battery to be able to work for nine continuous hours without the need for recharging, thus very close to the operating life of the iPad battery, which reaches 10 hours, which makes the competition at this point very strong between the two devices. Running Surface Go on Windows 10 is likely to improve on this point.

In competition with the iPad, Apple quickly released a series of iPad videos hours before the official launch of Surface Go, and four of these videos highlight the iPad's ability to perform normal tasks. , such as paperwork, and travel easily using the low-cost tablet, but after its emergence, "Surface Go" seemed superior and strong in five points.

1 laptop

The Surface Go might look like a tablet, but it's a realistic Windows laptop, and it might not be the best of a laptop, but it's impressive for its weight, size, and lightness. When compared to the iPad, we find that the iPad has half the RAM capacity of the Surface Go, and half the power of the processor, in addition to the fact that the Surface Go runs the entire suite of Windows applications, not a set of mobile applications. Portable, as with the «iPad».

2 video «4K»

Surface Go can be connected to any display device, and can work on any old screen, and run a complete unit that displays 4K video, and when an adapter is available that works with a USB C port, it can be played with a giant display screen size of 3840 x 2160, and also the use of dual screens, and this is what the iPad does not do.

3 facial recognition

The iPad seeks to adopt a “True Dips” camera for facial recognition, but “Surface Go” has facial recognition technology from the beginning, and Microsoft added the “Hello” technology to the device so that the user can unlock the lock just by looking at it, which is better than the need to press With your finger on a button every time.

4 cheaper price

The base price of the Surface Go is cheaper compared to the iPad, as it starts at $399, but the real problem lies in the prices of other accessories, which make the price close to $600.

5 speed

So far, the "Pentium processor" provides a large speed for "Surface Go" that exceeds the speed of the relatively old "A10" processor for the "iPad" devices, and until "Apple" improves the processing capabilities used in the "iPad", the "Surface" will remain Go is relatively superior in terms of speed, especially since the processor it works with belongs to the processors based on the Cappy Lake architecture from Intel.