it's the surface go Microsoft's latest
addition to their lineup of surface
products the surface family is notorious
for having extremely low repairability
scores last year surface book 2 scored a
1 out of 10 and even worse the surface
laptop got a zero so how will the
surface go measure up there's only one
way to find out and that's to tear it
down with no visible screws the only way
to get beneath the surface go is through
the display with a little heat from our
eye opener and our usual suction cup and
pick method we free the display and
disconnect the battery looks like this
is a 10 inch IPS multi-touch display
with the resolution of 1,800 by 1200 and
a pixel density of 217 PPI if there's
one thing surface devices have in spades
its clip-on shields that cover
everything
after removing eight shields we finally
figure out how to tackle the rest of the
device the camera bracket is held down
by six screws and underneath it we find
the windows hello camera a 5-megapixel
selfie camera and the eight megapixel
rear facing camera out next or pretty
much the only modular ports in the
surface go the micro SDXC card reader
and the surface type cover port just a
few screws hold the motherboard in place
and then it lifts right up on the board
we see the dual-core 1.6 gigahertz Intel
Pentium 44 15y processor 64 gigabytes of
SK Hynix NAND flash memory and the four
gigabytes of SK Hynix made Ram
unfortunately we also spot that the
headphone jack USB C port and the
surface connect port are all soldered to
the motherboard now we're only left with
the speakers in battery while the
speakers come right out the battery is
firmly glued in place this is a 26 point
1/2 watt hour battery which is quite a
drop in capacity from its pro level
predecessors like the surface book 4
which had a 38-point 2 watt hour battery
we've come to the end of our teardown so
it's time to talk repairability how did
the surface ghost score on our
repairability meter well it got a 1 at a
10 and here's why the smaller form
factor seems to make the glass easier to
remove without breaking but it's still
terrifyingly hard if this is expected to
replace a PC
lack of upgradability will severely
limit the device's lifespan the lack of
modularity especially on high wear ports
makes repair unnecessarily expensive
adhesive stubbornly holds many
components in place including the
display and battery and finally
replacement of any part requires removal
of the display assembly which is an easy
and expensive part to damage
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