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I absolutely love my surface go and making a repairable one will be fantastic. I just wish they'd finally make a 512gb version!
Hows battery life on the go 4? I have a surface pro 7 which is neither fast, nor gets good battery life so it's pretty useless to me.
A pro 9 with the P cores turned off or go 4 would actually be a pretty neat device for me.
I'm still on the Go 1 waiting for a 512gb version ;-). It's probably not what you want as a daily driver. For me it's something I use in meetings and on airplanes when I travel. For that it's perfect.
That's mostly what I used my pro 7 for, but even that it struggled with. With nothing else running doing RDP I get 2-3 hours of battery life which is just awful. And if I try to do widi or just about anything at all on the screen I get closer to an hour of battery life until the throttling sets in and it's unusable. Thank god the pro 8 added a fan for all models.
Battery life is much better on the go I think. Even on my old model, if I turn off wifi and turn down the brightness I can take notes all day. On full brightness with no Wi-Fi I can watch videos for like 4-6 hours on the plane. But when I have Wi-Fi or LTE enabled, it's probably only 3 hours. I'm sure a new one would improve that by 50% or so. But you don't want to have more than 2-3 apps open at a time, and you wanna use Firefox instead of Chrome.
Embracing the sustainable... sounds good Tablets especially have no reason to not be easy to take apart they shouldn't be a device consumers expect high IPX ratings for and their tasks can make them viable for a long time. I just went from 0-2 iPads a 2 and a first gen air, the air has a dodgy battery and the ifixit guide has about 80 steps! But both function fine in 2023 apart from the by design obsolescence.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last year, President Biden took credit for Microsoft pivoting to support Right to Repair.
No matter who deserves the credit, announcements like the one today and several others in Microsoft's recent history show that they are committed to helping consumers repair their devices.
In the iFixit announcement, they focus on their expanded ability to assist their customers in repairing 15 Surface devices.
You can visit the post to get a link to each device on the iFixit site, or head directly to Microsoft's Repair Hub for more help.
As Microsoft pairs with more of their Authorized Service Providers to distribute official OEM parts to repair their outstanding Surface products and other hardware they may have planned in the future, they become a more trusted and dependable company for customers to invest in.
With Satya Nadella's recent comments on how canceling the Windows Phone was a mistake, maybe we will see it make a come-back with repairability in mind, leading the mobile segment in this consumer-first approach to technology devices.
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