The standard configuration I tested features a Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of eMMC storage.

No, it's not as fast as the iPad on certain benchmarks, but the Surface Pro felt speedy in my everyday use. I handed the Surface Pen to our deputy photo director, Jef Castro, and he said it felt responsive and sensitive when he made a sketch in Paint 3D. After a few seconds, I could bypass the lock screen just by looking at the front of this tablet. Logging in to the Surface Go is a cinch if you enable Windows Hello facial recognition. However, touching the right icon on the bottom of the screen proved difficult when I had multiple apps open, as the icons are tiny. The touch screen on the Surface Pro proved responsive as expected, whether I was scrolling or pinching-to-zoom on photos. The average budget laptop gets just 87 percent, and a 2-in-1 like the Lenovo Flex 6 11 mustered only 71 percent.

The Surface Go surpassed on the iPad on color reproduction, registering 129.2 percent of the sRGB color gamut compared with 119 percent for Apple's tablet.

The 10-inch PixelSense display on the Surface Go may be small, but it offers plenty of pop. It averaged 415 nits of brightness, which is lower than the iPad but miles above the average budget laptop (245 nits). The Surface Go's screen delivered excellent results in our labs, too. While the panel on the 9.7-inch iPad is even higher-res at 2048 x 1536 pixels, I don't have any complaints about the Surface Go's canvas.

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