I looked into mainboard’s picture and found many blank area on the top left. Probably it was designed for SSD and will be used on 128GB model. I don’t think Microsoft will spent too much money to design and manufacture another type of mainboard.

Looks like the empty solder pads on the back of the main board between the USB-c and charge connector have space to solder a NVMe connector. May also need controller though as Al2Me6 mentioned on 08/04/2018. I would like to know if an NVMe drive can be added to the EMMc version I have.

I agree that on Windows 10, as with all reviewers, this product is pretty much useless. That said, for me, it is incredibly useful only because, as a few other people have done, I wiped the drive of Windows and installed Linux (Ubuntu). This gets around all of the performance issues and it works great for general programming tasks and even low-end gaming.

I believe this is the SSD used https://business.toshiba-memory.com/cont...

I would imagine that the empty solder pads are for the optional NAND SSD and controller.

there’s no way this is better value then Samsungs windows tablets. For the same price you get a fast ssd, AMOLED display and a core M cpu. Plus it looks better and has a better battery life.

Arthur Dent.. That’s your opinion, and thankfully, everyone’s got one. I’m very satisfied with my Surface Go. (I have a Surface Book 2 when I really need to do major productivity.) Samsung Windows tablets don’t have Surface Pen compatibility and I think this is a much better value, seeing as it works seamlessly with all my other Surface devices. This is just literally for ‘on the go’ and it’s an amazing device in my opinion. The Samsung Galaxy is $727.99 at WalMart, a little out of my price range for a secondary device, imho. I paid around $600 for my Surface Go with the Alcantara cobalt blue type cover, using one of my other Surface Pens and Mouse.

And here’s my opinion. Every device needs some form of repair at some point to keep the price down of buying new hardware every 2 years. Who wants to spend $400-$600 every 2 years.

I work in a repair shop, and I stay away from all Surfaces now. I just had a customer call me 20 minutes ago asking if I repair Surface Go’s. I said “no, too much can break just opening them up”. After the call I researched what a “Surface Go” is. Now I’m glad I didn’t take on that challenge.

Repairability of 1? I’d never buy one, and I feel sorry for the suckers who have and end up with a broken one seeking for repairs. At least they don’t put the WiFi and Bluetooth antenna under the adhesive anymore.

because, it seems, iFixit is funded, run or somewhat biased towards Apple and its products, I’ve never seen a real teardown where Apple is treated like the rest it is alwys in the line “it uses mild adhesive for the sake of lines and design” or “look, is propietary but,, hey it’s apple” things like that

The Surface line is meant to be a personal computer, while iPads are mobile devices, so the comparison should really be Surface to MacBook, and those devices score very similarly. Apple notebooks are consistently at the [http://Apple does a pretty good job prioritizing screen and battery replacements in their tablets and phones, |bottom of our repairability lists]. Apple does a comparatively good job prioritizing screen and battery replacements in their tablets and phones, and our scores reflect that.

Apple devices should get higher scores because of the 3rd party parts that are widely available. With Apple you get your choice of vendors. Only issue with Apple parts is deciding which vendors to buy from.

Buy products that have high repairablity scores and you reward those companies. Most consumers prefer cheap to better. Don’t drive up prices on cheap products because they don’t meet YOUR needs.

The complete sentence reads, “If this is expected to replace a PC, the lack of upgradability will severely limit the device's lifespan.” Repairability and upgradability are both about the same thing: extending the device’s lifespan. Always has been.

A few companies actually do make pretty repairable tablets. Most notably, HP makes their tablets to be very serviceable, and have publicly-available service manuals. If you’d like to see our repair reviews of a variety of tablets, check out our tablet repairability page.