If you can find an older Surface Pro 4 pen, you’ll get a decent compromise with less obvious fish hooks and lower jitter.īut if inking is the only reason you’re considering the Go, there is one 10.6-inch alternative to consider, the Samsung Galaxy Book, which retails for $629 with keyboard and S-Pen. It’s impossible to ink thin lines with it. The least wobbly pen is the recently released Adonit Ink, but it offers the worst pressure response of any of my MPP pens. I’ve used the Go with six different MPP-compatible pens and while none are perfect, I found they all behave slightly differently and most do better than the Surface Pen does. So does this pen flop disqualify the Go for anyone looking for a 10-inch digital Moleskin? It almost did for me, but fortunately I had other pen options on hand to test. Hopefully, Microsoft will issue a patch that will dampen the ink response, which today behaves as if the pen nib is either sticking at the end of the stroke or failing to recognize that the tip is no longer in contact with the display. That chip was removed from the Surface Go and might explain why the new pen performs so poorly. The last generation of Surfaces included pen acceleration “silicon that sits between the display and graphics controllers” that greatly reduced ink latency. Since the Go’s release last week, I think I may be the only reviewer besides the persnickety inkers over at forums who seems to have noticed the problem. Is it possible that Microsoft could issue a firmware update to correct this problem? I think so, assuming they’re aware of the issue.
If you hand write or doodle quickly, you may not notice either issue, but if you want to draw accurately or write neatly, you’ll find yourself battling with the pen 100% of the time. (The company subsequently bought N-Trig and rebranded its tech as Microsoft Pen Protocol). Unfortunately, I also didn’t expect to find the worst out-of-the-box Surface inking experience since Microsoft adopted N-Trig’s pen technology in the Surface Pro 3. And as a companion or travel device, it’s so good it’s almost a no-brainer. For students and light home and office users, the Go is good enough to be your only computer. I keep reading the word “fun” used to describe the Go and I can’t think of a better adjective.
What I didn’t expect to find was a device that isn’t just “good enough,” it’s actually pretty great. Like me, they’d want to know “is the entry level model good enough?” After all, listing for $400 less than the lowest end Surface Pro, the company’s corner-cutting decisions are plain as day: Pentium Gold processor? 64 GB eMMC?īut I resisted the temptation to purchase the significantly upgraded $549 version with 8 GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD because I know that many of my readers are artists or students on very tight budgets. When I set out to review Microsoft’s new $399 Surface Go last week, I expected to encounter a dog.
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