
Speaking of the sort, this thing weighs just 2.45 pounds, a meaningful improvement over Microsoft’s 2.8-pound 13-inch Surface Laptop. To be fair, Microsoft says the bottom case material contains around 40 percent glass fiber, so it’s not the cheapest-feeling plastic, and it helps keep the weight down, to boot. It feels rigid, and I sort of dig the soft touch texture, but it was my first reminder that this is a budget machine.

The top still has the anodized aluminum we’ve gotten used to seeing since the very first Surface Laptop, but the bottom portion is made out of a plastic resin.

Get up close, though, and you’ll notice that it doesn’t have an all-metal case.

From afar, the Surface Laptop Go looks like a scale model version of Microsoft’s 13-inch Laptop series.
