Playing videos relies on heavily GPU hardware acceleration, so it's actually very power efficient and we were able to play videos continuously for slightly longer than Microsoft's claimed 11 hours. Interestingly, we saw better benchmark performance when using the Go 3's own charger, rather than the (official, Microsoft) charger from an earlier-generation Surface.īattery life, as always, depends on what you're doing. It's very usable for mainstream business apps, browsing and video meetings in Teams, but (as noted below) the Windows 11 interface doesn't always feel as fast and performant as the benchmark results might lead you to expect.

The new Core i3 CPU delivers a respectable improvement on earlier Surface Go models.

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