Microsoft has announced one of its regular Surface events for September 22, and one of the devices that might well be featuring is the Surface Go 3: an affordable tablet that also works instead well as a Windows laptop once you’ve got a keyboard cover attached.
Well, that’s what we think anyway because the Surface Go 3 isn’t actually official yet. Now sources in contact with WinFuture have revealed some of the specs and details of the rumoured device, with most of the changes happening on the inside.
As far as the design goes, the new tablet is going to look a lot like the Surface Go 2, according to this latest leak – so expect the same 10.5-inch screen running at a resolution of 1920 x 1280 pixels, and a similar approach to the device aesthetics.
Under the hood, the big change is said to be the inclusion of the updated Amber Lake Y chips from Intel, slated to appear on the higher-end configurations of the Surface Go 3. Specifically, the Intel Core i3-10100Y quad-core chipset alongside 8GB of RAM has been spotted in a benchmark.
At the basic end of the configuration spectrum, the Surface Go 3 is expected to be available with a slower (but cheaper) Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y processor. That comes with 4GB of RAM onboard, though these spec options might not be final. Its apparently direct replacement’s renders suggest it will also even have the same ports (1 3.5mm jack alongside a USB Type-C port and a MicroSD slot).
Finally, the Surface Go 3 is now painted as having the exact same dimensions as the Go 2 – however, at 640 grams (g), it seems it has gotten lighter than its 750g predecessor. Quandt notes that Shopee had listed it for prices ranging from the equivalent of €380 (~US$446) to €575 (~$674).
