I need something to replace my Lenovo X12….not a big enough bump I’m afraid.
“Detachable Notebook” but the keyboard is not included…so it’s a tablet.
For those interested, the keyboard is still available from Dell at $160:
Or for $113 at the mothership (B09GXJS5BR)
I got “Jelly Comb” brand BT keyboards and like the round keys and the spacing. Not sure they are around, but I suspect the keyboards are out there with some other name.
The major difference when pitting a generic BT keyboard against the official keyboard for this device is overall fit and function. The “notebook” was designed to use the matching Dell keyboard specifically, with a direct electrical connection that allows the keyboard to work even before the operating system loads. A third party BT keyboard is probably fine in a pinch, but if I had one of these I’d opt for the real deal, though I’d look at a refurb or used unit instead of paying over $100 for it.
I can’t imagine using my Surface Go 2 with any keyboard other than the official one.
I’m really surprised that the CPUs in these are rated so slow. They are newer than the ones used in the Surface Pro 8 (i7-1165G7), with the same cores and cache, yet they’re at least 20% slower. Even the TDP is the same (15w) on both, so the Dells won’t be more power efficient.
Looks like it’s the base clock speed for one thing, and probably thermal throttling too. The 1165G7 is used in a really broad range of laptops, some with aggressive cooling systems, so the average over 4400+ samples might skew towards less thermal throttling. There are only 63 samples of the newer chip in the Dell, and given its lower base frequency it’s probably targeted at passively cooled tablet-like devices, so it’s going to skew lower even if there were more samples in the rating.
I’ve seen the same thing with the Alder Lake N100 CPU; in a fanless system it throttles fairly quickly compared to the exact same SoC in an actively cooled system, and the benchmark scores reflect this.