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The 5MP webcam is exceptionally good. Images are crisp and colourful, even in low light, and you can record video at 1080p. It’s one of the best cameras I’ve encountered on a laptop and, combined with a highly effective microphone array, makes the Go 3 an ideal tool for videoconferencing. The webcam also supports Windows Hello facial recognition, which makes up for the absence of a fingerprint reader. These are the best keyboard options you can find for the Surface Go 3. Depending on what you value most, each one has its own worth. The official Surface Go Type Cover is the best if you want a reliable connection since it's the only one to use the proprietary Surface keyboard connector instead of Bluetooth. On the other hand, something like the Brydge 10.5 Go+ is very cool because it truly makes the Surface Go 3 feel like a real laptop. And, for office setups, something like the Logitech MX Mechanical is really where it's at. Mechanical keyboards are fantastic, and since this one has such a clean design, it's great for work.

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Note: If you don't see a Devices menu, then your device does not provide this functionality and is working as expected. Not all devices have this option on the UEFI screen.There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Go 3’s display. At its peak of 418cd/m², it’s usefully bright and there’s decent colour representation, with 99.6% of the sRGB gamut represented. If the LED lights turn on, your problem may be with Windows and not the device itself. The next step is to reset your Surface. Here's how: Inside, the Go 3 has been upgraded. You have a choice of an Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y, which is much faster on paper than its predecessor, or a 10-generation Core i3 processor, which is about the same. Both are very much at the lower end of the market, based on older technology. But it is hindered by slow chips with inconsistent, laggy performance and a poor battery life. The competition has moved on significantly since the original Go and Go 2 launched but Microsoft has not kept up.

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Somewhat discouragingly, these and other similarly priced devices are likely to offer a smoother experience than the Go 3 does on everything but the simplest tasks. I found there to be occasional lag and sluggishness while installing apps, as well as when opening and closing menus. And sluggishness occurs with more frequency when switching between two apps that are already running. It’s a similar experience to what we found when testing the Go 2 last year, except that the lag behavior is less excusable now considering the Go 3 has an upgraded CPU and runs Windows 11. The Surface Go has been slowly trudging towards adequacy when it comes to battery life over the years. The first generation model lasted 6hrs 23mins in our video rundown test, the Go 2 managed 7hrs 17mins and the Go 3 improves that yet again to 9hrs 31mins. That’s not too bad considering the battery is only a little larger than the Go 2’s (28Wh versus 27Wh). For comparison, the 2021 iPad kept running for 13hrs 11mins.Pressing the fingerprint reader at the Windows sign-in screen has no response and appears not to be recognized. The Surface Go 3 looks nice, feels great and has a lot of potential as a mini tablet that offers a full Windows 11 PC experience. Having trouble with your Surface device keyboard, Surface Go Type Cover, Surface Pro Type Cover, or Surface Pro Keyboard? The redesigned Start menu squeezes more icons into a smaller space, so it is a better fit for the 10.5in screen of the Go 3. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian If the keys are working correctly in UEFI, but not in Windows: The problem is likely with the software installed on the Surface, and you'll need to reinstall. See Creating and using a USB recovery drive for Surface.

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There are some solutions you can try. First steps if your Surface Type Cover or Keyboard doesn't work Use these drivers and firmware to prepare your custom images for enterprise deployment, or to repair problems with custom installations of Windows on your Surface Go 3. The MSI will install all relevant drivers automatically. These drivers and firmware are not compatible with Surface Go (first generation) and Surface Go 2. You'll see the logo screen on your screen. Continue to hold the Volume Up button. Release the button when the UEFI screen appears. We’ll look more in-depth at performance below, but suffice it to say that the Surface Go 3 isn’t for anyone who needs to run complex apps like Adobe Photoshop, and its day-to-day computing experience is a bit laggy compared not only with Windows laptops, but also with better-equipped Chromebooks and iPads. While it’s true that many Chromebooks and iPads come with just 4GB of RAM, iPadOS and Chrome OS have limited multitasking capabilities or other memory-hungry requirements.The Go 3 also finishes last in this lot on more-demanding content-creation workflows like transcoding a 4K video using Handbrake or rendering a 3D image in Maxon’s Cinebench app. The tablet couldn’t even complete our Adobe Photoshop image-editing trial, although its failure here could have more to do with a software glitch, since it otherwise meets the minimum system requirements. The benchmark results tell the same sorry story. Our in-house media benchmark app produced a wretched score of just 24. That’s compared to 32 scored by the Core m3-8100Y version of the Go 2 we tested last year, which was itself a dismal showing. The Geekbench 5 CPU scores of 839 (single-core) and 1,572 (multi-core) were equally poor.

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READ NEXT: Asus Zenbook Fold 17 OLED review Microsoft Surface Go 3 review: Performance and battery lifeFor Windows 11: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard (scroll down to the Interaction section). To adjust the settings, toggle the settings to either on or off, depending on your preferences. That said, one of the apps I tried to install and use is Adobe Photoshop, notoriously demanding on a PC’s resources. The Surface Go 3 is certainly not the tablet for hardcore Photoshop users. And there are positive aspects of the Go 3’s computing experience when compared with laptop alternatives. Most important, the Go 3 doesn’t need a cooling fan, so it’s similarly silent to the iPad under heavy computing loads, situations when a larger laptop might sound like a miniature vacuum cleaner. (See more about how we test laptops.) Note: This process reinstalls Windows but keeps your personal files and any apps that came with your PC. It removes changes you made to settings, as well as apps and drivers you installed. The Go 3, therefore, only makes sense if you simply must have a small Windows 11 tablet and are prepared to pay over the odds for it.