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Thu. 10/01 – New Surface Laptop Go: Smaller Display, $549

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

New Surface Laptop Go and Surface Pro X from Microsoft. Google is going to pay $1 billion dollars to support journalism. Google has a Photos update, but why is Stadia already looking shaky? And a textbook example of a developer’s dream of overnight success that was actually years in the making. Sponsors: MasterWorks.io: Promocode RIDE to skip the waiting list! Metalab.co Links: Microsoft’s new $549 Surface Laptop Go aims to compete with Chromebooks (The Verge) Microsoft updates the Surface Pro X with a new processor option (Engadget) Google will spend $1 billion to pay publishers for news showcase (Axios) Improved Google Photos editor is rolling out now on Android (The Verge) The new Chromecast with Google TV won’t officially support Stadia at launch (The Verge) Palantir closes below first trade after NYSE debut (CNBC) Six Figures in 6 days (tr.af) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, October 1st, 2020.

0:07.3

I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.4

New Surface Laptop Go and Surface Pro X for Microsoft.

0:14.0

Google is going to pay $1 billion to support journalism globally.

0:18.0

Google has a photos update, but why is Stadia already looking shaky and a textbook example of a developer's dream of overnight success that was actually years in the making?

0:28.0

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

0:33.0

Microsoft this morning took the wrapping off a new surface laptop go with a smaller 12.4 inch display

0:41.0

10th gen Intel core I-5 processors, and actually there are three different

0:45.7

models here, but they're available for pre-order today and shipping October 13th.

0:50.5

The headline here is that the Go starts at just $549, thereby making this one of the lowest cost surface devices yet,

0:58.0

only bested in cheapness by the $379 surface go-2.

1:02.0

The target here is people who are making. $3,99 Surface Go2.

1:03.0

The target here is people who are maybe Chromebook Curious, quoting The Verge.

1:08.6

The Surface Laptop Go, as the name implies, is mostly the same service you've seen before but smaller and lighter.

1:14.4

Microsoft is using a smaller 12.4 inch display than the 13.5 inch one found on

1:19.5

the Surface Laptop 3, but it's also running just 1536 by 1024 resolution.

1:25.0

That's still more than standard 720 P.H.D.

1:28.5

Thanks to the 3 by 2 aspect ratio.

1:31.5

But even the Surface Go 2 managed to hit 1920 by 1280 on a smaller 10.5 inch

1:37.2

display. This smaller frame makes the Surface Laptop Go the lightest Surface L ever, at just 2.45 pounds. That's lighter than

1:46.5

Apple's Macbook Air and many Chromebooks or Windows laptops at this price point. Microsoft is still

1:52.0

including a full-size keyboard with 1.3

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