The Surface Go is also the only device with a rear-facing camera, if you think you'll need one. The Pixelbook has two USB-C ports whereas the Surface Go only has one, and both devices have a 3.5 mm headphone jack integrated in the chassis, but only the Microsoft 2-in-1 has a microSDXC memory card: that's maybe something to bear in mind if you need to transfer a lot of pictures over from a digital camera. The Surface Go might struggle to run serious desktop apps like Adobe Photoshop, but of course the Pixelbook can't run desktop apps at all. With that spec sheet the Surface Go is obviously aiming more for the Apple iPad than the Google Pixelbook, which is why you get Windows 10 S Mode installed by default.Įvery laptop is a compromise between power and price – the Pixelbook has better specs, but the Surface Go is cheaper, so it's really up to you where you want to strike the balance. The Surface Go specs are inferior in comparison – just an Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y processor, then 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and 64GB, 128GB or 256GB of SSD storage. Those are decent specs for a Windows laptop, and are more than enough to run Chrome OS. You get a dual-core, 7th-generation Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB or 16GB of RAM, and 128GB, 256GB or 512GB of internal SSD storage.

Surprisingly for a Chromebook running the lightweight Chrome OS, the Google Pixelbook is very well tricked out in terms of specs (hence, perhaps, the high price).

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