I’ve spent about 2 years with a Microsoft Surface Go 2. I’ve loved it and it was great for note taking in college and doing my Spanish lessons that I’m currently taking.

My Go 2 has the intel pentium chip with eMMC storage. And at $400, the performance just isn’t great. It’s fine for surfing the web and watching movies, but it isn’t fast by any means. It is slow to open webpages, slow on Microsoft office, and drawboard PDF is so poorly optimized. And upgrading to the i3 chip kills battery life.

From this, I’ve come to realize that basically you need to buy an iPad or the high end Surface or Samsung to get any decent performance and good storage and those aren’t exactly cheap. (I’m a windows PC guy, but iOS is far superior for tablets)

That just isn’t feasible for most people, let alone when inflation is what it is right now. I’ll probably be switching to an iPad Air in 2 years or so and don’t see myself purchasing another “budget” tablet.