I recently got mine for about 2 weeks now and I love it. As a student who's starting college soon it's really light and portable, I have small hands so the keyboard doesn't bother me that much. Daily task such as RUclips, web browsing, and looking at emails it handles it no problem. As an artist I also got this to draw digital art, I use Medibang and sometimes there's lag when zooming in and it jitters here and there but I'm not really bothered by it since I'm just doodling for fun. I found myself drawing more digital art on here than I did when I had a wacom intuos, or even on my hp pavilion. My overall experience as an artist/student is beyond satisfied especially with the pricing (I did get the 128gb with pen and keyboard)
The surface pen got an update on august which dramatically improved jitter and offset issues. I own a surface pro 2017 and I had jitter and offset problem like you on the video but it's fixed now thanks to the update. I'm not sure if the surface go got the same update but you should check the firmware update if you have problem with jitter. But I still agree most wacom tablets and apple pencil has much nicer strokes
Steven Kuang if you are using surface pro 2017 just go to security and update and check for updates as far as I know it doesn't work with any other serface pro so if you are using surface pro 4 or something it doesn't work
I don't know if this will help anyone but I just used one of these in store and the pen was great. No jittering or wonky lines at all. I could even lay my hand on the screen for the most part.The pen was really accurate with where it draws and just really great to use as an artist. HIghly recommend. I don't know much about the actual surface go, but just drawing on it is superb.
Others probably already said so, but you should have chosen the 8/128 version, as the SSD is actually a whole lot faster in that one which should prove a bigger benefit than the added 4Gigs of RAM for your use-case.
I just recently got mine and let me tell you I love it. It rarely stutters and honestly was a big upgrade from my hp splitbook. I use Krita and it works just fine 😊 typically don't have anything else open with it so it works near perfect. The pen is nice. Honestly really good investment. Would recommend this device.
After watching your courses at Udemy and some of your reviews, I can say that the in between animations are a plus. It gives a more relaxed feeling to the review and overall they are funny. Keep it up Brad.
I waited for this woo. It's hard to find reviews from an artist/illustrator's perspective such as you do with your reviews on the surface GO. I'm glad! Edit: Guess i'm just gonna wait a bit more until I can save up enough for the PRO. As you mentioned 4gb is not that much and i've already experienced what a nightmare it can be with just photoshop alone, and I plan to be able to use flash/animate. The constant jitters were also a bit turn off. Clean lines are extremely important when it comes to doing lineart for me and that will probably make me less productive if I keep having to encounter that :(
So I got one of these for art purposes and I just want to add a couple things. Mainly this is GOOD for art, not great for it. If you're art style is more rendered and you use a lot of different brushes and the like. This device will start slowing down and lagging after you've been at a detailed drawing for while. I had one instance of the whole device freezing up completely. It is a good side device, say if you also have a Wacom pad for a PC in addition to a Surface Go. Overall I like it, but I'll upgrade it eventually.
Boy, you nailed it... I thought I'm just gonna watch 5 to 10 second of this video, but I got hooked instead to the very end. What can I say, you're a real pro.
Great review, animations perfect, and nice drawing. I wish I could draw! I know practice practice lol. I have the Go and iPad Pro 10.5, love carrying both.
Microsoft is killing it with the Surface line. 5 years ago I never would have considered buying hardware from Microsoft, but they found this nice little niche in the 2-in-1 market. They are more innovative than Apple right now.. they just need to add thunderbolt 3 ports
I like the review aside from where you are showing the lag from photoshop but also fail to mention you have adobe animate open in the back ground along with photoshop which would be using resources as well even if it doesnt have a project open. Still tru that the 4gb model is pushing it for PS, I think you should be more open about whats running when youre testing.
I am confused either should I buy surface go or pro 5. Here are the available specs and price: 1. Surface go 4 gb RAM without key board is 495 usd and with key board is 630 usd. 2. Surface go 8 gb Ram with out key board is 685 usd and with key board is 820 USD. 3. Surface pro 5 with core i5 and 8 gb RAM including key board is 960 usd. My actual inrerest to buy 2 in 1 laptop is to get a small device, easy to carry having Windows option where multi tasking can be perforned, I may play few low graphic games, which I used to play in 2008 on my Pentium 4 ;:) I have seen bad reviews about surface go mentioning system getting slow on Chrome and while opening multiple tabs on RUclips. i am not looking for a device which gets slow on RUclips as I used to open like 8 or 9 tabs normally and multiple files. I liked Surface go as it is very light weight and handy comparing to Surface pro 5. I am really confused which one to select. I don't consider Surface go with 8 gb as it would be better to buy instead Surface pro 5 with 8 gb as it's on promotion and on a cheap price. Please share your thoughts Surface go 4 gb or pro 5 8 gb ? Plus if any of your valuable experience to share with me. By the way I am a person who likes to keep gadget for a long time. I liked Lenovo miix 320 having keyboard like a laptop but i has Intel Atom processor. Waiting for your feed back. Thanks
Would you agree that this might work well if you want to mainly use this product for adobe illustrator, autodesk's sketch to draw, coding, maybe basic animation CC, and perhaps quick minimal layout (indesign)?
I made a video reviewing the diagonal jitters and it's pretty bad. Seems like it's just a lot of extra work to get clean lines unless your drawing strokes are very fast. My video is not entertaining like Brad's though...
Yeah thanks Brad for the review, I was hopping you would review it. I have an iPad Gen 6 and a got a Surface Go, and even if, like said Brad and some other viewer, it lacks of performance, I'm quite happy with it. I take it everywhere, I use it to Stream my Surface Book 2 (too keep my processor performance), draw, to watch Netflix or Brad into the train or in my bedroom ^^ I was so disappointed by Samsung's Galaxy Book and its S Pen too light, because of the strange tilt configuration… The Surface Go is more or less the same power (of the GB10), but has the advantage of existing into 2 configurations. And when comparing the 128 Gb model's price to the price of the Galaxy Tab S4 or iPad Pro, it's not that expensive even if you want to add a keyboard, and a stylus (on all of them). I didn't buy a keyboard for my iPad because of the cost + weight that make the iPad's best part go away (it is a nice light tablet to take everywhere, but it become so annoying with the keyboard covers made for it...it's heavy, thick,..). It was also the problem with Galaxy Book's thick Cover (and the support function is not as good as the kickstand of Surface products… It's true you can't really play on it, but who really expect this ? I still managed to play Fortnite and DB FighterZ or recently Two Point Hospital, but don't expect being able to launch many recent games ^^ But it seems it can be used for game streaming services like Shadow and other. For drawing I didn't have much problem on Sketchbook and Clip Studio Paint (which is really great) but it's true I could have some of the things reported by Surface Pro Artist or Brad, but not as much as them. I think it really depends on how we use the pen, and how everyone works. As an amateur it works fine, and I still prefer the Surface Pen to the Apple Pencil, unlike you Brad. ;) I really really don't like the glass to plastic tip feeling even if the pencil is really much optimized for drawing than the Surface Pen, where each soft shoul be optimized for dozen of styluses and technology (and not so many ones compatible with tilt function…). Anyway thanks for your review(s) Brad !
My understanding is Surface Pen's tip (HB) provides more friction and it should feel more natural than, say, Apple Pencil even without one of those expensive "Paperlike" screen protectors. Am I right? I, too, totally hate that plastic-on-glass slippery feeling...
I recommend you to buy Clip Studio Paint, that's the software which render the best with the Microsoft Pen. The tilt works great on it, whereas on Sketchbook it depends of the tool used…
Great review as always Brad. Just confirms my thoughts about using full blown Windows on a drawing device: You need MUCH more processing power than you would out of an iPad or Galaxy tab to get the same drawing experience, and the programs for full Windows are just not optimized/designed for 10" screen drawing, so you need at least a 12" device. Because of this, I actually just purchased my first Apple product. I'm sort of an oddity in the design world, as I have been using Windows machines my whole life and have not had a desire or need to switch to Apple since the platform didn't offer me anything that I couldn't get elsewhere for cheaper. This is no longer the case. Affinity Designer and Procreate are 100% better programs for illustrating on the screen than anything that is available on Windows or on Apple's regular OS--both in terms of ground-up UI design for touch, and for their well-optimized code that just runs so well on a rather basic ARM processor.
My surface pro 4 busted up so I'm thinking of getting this as a replacement - great review! Would've never known my current working pen is worth keeping around for this through other reviews. I'd only use it for taking notes, school stuff, and doodling for fun so I'm not too bothered about performance.
@Brad is there yet a way to use the Surface Go with Windows PC as some are using the iPad (Astropad) with the Mac? I get that the Surface Go is a "full" pc but I would still like the benefit of the PC doing the work and the tablet functioning as an input device with less workload.
Thank you for doing this, useful! Would you recommend picking up a used SP3 instead? (They are the only ones I'm finding in this price range - unless you pick up damaged devices)
Are you using both surface go and surface pro in the video? Since Photoshop works flawless in some parts(the head drawing) but bad when you show us how bad it works.
Philip Karlsson Hi Philip, how is it going with your surface Go with 8 GB ram? Was it a good purchase? How it works with Photoshop or other drawing applications?
@@FabioSalvidotcom Hello! I've been using it at university mostly doing stuff like Word, Excel, google online documents, 3D programs like PTC Creo, 3Ds Max and some drawing with the Leonardo app and some light photoshop recently actually. And I would strongly recommend this as a perfect solution for some mid-light heavy work when you're not on your stationary computer. It runs flawlessly with multiple programs and chrome tabs open, no worries at all. Everything else other ppl saying is just nonsense. However, Chrome has some issue with the touch function on the Surface Go which makes it "slow" when zooming and panning with fingers, but hopefully it can get fixed with some update. But it doesn't mind me that much. When it comes to drawing I like it very much, its simple and it has good precision. It has some jitter when doing some diagonal lines sometimes and for a professional, that could be annoying, but it also differs from program to program. So it CAN definitely run programs like photoshop as others, and it runs them well. But if you wanna do like really heavy stuff its not for that. And the pen is awesome. I actually used this computer only for one subject at the school where we used PTC Creo to do some CAD work, and it worked out very good. If you want I could try to show you specific stuff if you want, through email or something. I could also try put something up at youtube, I've never done it doh but I could surly try.
Do you suppose I could find a refurbished or “open box” (yet in good condition) unit one of these on Amazon or Ebay, for $200 - $300? Not even with the whole package, just the basic tablet itself. I can get the keyboard and pen later.
I love how non tech people think more ram is so important. Ram doesn't really make things run smoother. Ram speed is important, but ram capacity is less so. If you have 4 gigs, your performance will be identical when you're only using 1 gig as if you're using 3.99 gigs. you only notice anything at all once you exceed it. So unless you PLAN on opening 5+ programs at once, 10+ chrome tabs, and 1-2 performance intensive applications, you won't exceed 4 gigs. If you're editing gigantic files, thats a different story. But somehow i doubt EVERYBODY does video editing. On all of these goddamn comment sections everyone pretends they are a photo editor. I've gone my entire life without editing a single image. I think for 95% of the populace, 4 gigs of ram is absolutely fine.
Love the little animations in this video! Keep it up! Any chance you'll be reviewing the new Parblo Mast 22? I've been dying to see it in action, but no one's talking about it yet!
I still use my Surface Pro 3 i5 for drawing on the go. and Im still loving it, i try Photoshop but in the end i find Photoshop very horrible for drawing. Im now using Clip Studio Paint because it has modes for Touch and normal use. but Im not a Professional Artist.
Hi Brad, right now I'm using a Chromebook and I was thinking about getting into art digitally (right now I'm traditional). Idk anything about digital art would you recommend something like this for someone like me? Mostly I only use my computer for web browsing and all my photos and images get saved on cloud/onedrive. I thought the surface go would be a good artist upgrade/investment?
Sounds like a great cheap on the go sketch book. It’s cheaper than the iPad Pro 2018 ANd it’s actually a computer. Granted, it’s weak but us artists rarely need more than these specs.
wut glove did ya use? I keep reading people having issues with them not sure if it's fine with the Go but have just been using a microfiber cloth in the meantime lol
Now I am starting to doubt if my hand was the culprit when I tried my colleague's maxed out surface book. I thought the wiggled lines was because it was very sensitive.
Thank you for this review! I was set on getting an iPad Pro cause it seems like that’s the go to, but this tablet seems like it’s gonna do all that I need of it, and it’s literally less than half the price of the iPad! Thank you!
Would love to see a review of a Wacom's Cintiq Pro. You're by far the best tablet reviewer on YT and It'd be really interesting to see your take on Wacom's newest, top-of-the-line products as compared to the more budget-oriented alternatives by Huion, XP-pen and what-not which you've already reviewed.
I have bought a Cintiq Pro 13 after watched all of his videos. The Wacom's quality is so great that I have no regret at all! Now I only have a kidney... /jk
I plan to get a top end surface book in the futute for my more heavy lifting video editing but I also need a smaller more efficient device that could not only do media consumption but also for coding, photo editing and maybe .... if possible ..... some light on the go video editing. I will be doing all this in adobe cc suite. Can this pull that off with 8gb ram?
This or the Samsung Tab S4 (with the wacom digitizer)? I had a Surface Pro 3 before but it wasn't that great for art (ntrig pen wobbly lines with only 256 levels of pressure)
![[SFM] Risky Recital](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RzNkY1_Nk3o/mqdefault.jpg)
Love that you added animation in-between your review of the surface go. Made the review a lot more fun and engaging to watch. It made me chuckle =D.
I didn't expect to get so much fun from a hardware review video.
I recently got mine for about 2 weeks now and I love it. As a student who's starting college soon it's really light and portable, I have small hands so the keyboard doesn't bother me that much. Daily task such as RUclips, web browsing, and looking at emails it handles it no problem. As an artist I also got this to draw digital art, I use Medibang and sometimes there's lag when zooming in and it jitters here and there but I'm not really bothered by it since I'm just doodling for fun. I found myself drawing more digital art on here than I did when I had a wacom intuos, or even on my hp pavilion. My overall experience as an artist/student is beyond satisfied especially with the pricing (I did get the 128gb with pen and keyboard)
How much is the actual surface go without any extras?
If ur gonna go to college get a real laptop. Ur gonna write a lot not draw on the screen. You NEED a keyboard
S Lyng lol I do have a keyboard, I use the go when I’m at school cause it’s light but have another laptop at home.
If your college provides pdf notes then surface products are great. You cam do MS office and also annotate.
@@rafaelcostales9237 ur a fucking dumbass
The animations in between were really nice and funny. Gave the review a personal touch :D
The surface pen got an update on august which dramatically improved jitter and offset issues. I own a surface pro 2017 and I had jitter and offset problem like you on the video but it's fixed now thanks to the update. I'm not sure if the surface go got the same update but you should check the firmware update if you have problem with jitter. But I still agree most wacom tablets and apple pencil has much nicer strokes
Could you please tell me where can I find this update? Is it a Surface firmware update or just a Surface Pen firmware (if that exists) update?
Steven Kuang if you are using surface pro 2017 just go to security and update and check for updates as far as I know it doesn't work with any other serface pro so if you are using surface pro 4 or something it doesn't work
@@rlatmddjs thx a lot
Finally! Thanks! All the other ones don't even test it and just say "It's bad.".
The added animations in between are SO nice ♥ Love them to bits.
I don't know if this will help anyone but I just used one of these in store and the pen was great. No jittering or wonky lines at all. I could even lay my hand on the screen for the most part.The pen was really accurate with where it draws and just really great to use as an artist. HIghly recommend. I don't know much about the actual surface go, but just drawing on it is superb.
Did you get a surface go?
I love the funny talking animations....!!!😀😊😉😆
@@miketrejo4990 and...
Others probably already said so, but you should have chosen the 8/128 version, as the SSD is actually a whole lot faster in that one which should prove a bigger benefit than the added 4Gigs of RAM for your use-case.
Nice. Like everyone said, the animation and humor you added made this review great!
FINALLY !!! THE REVIEW WORTH WAITING FOR !!
I just recently got mine and let me tell you I love it. It rarely stutters and honestly was a big upgrade from my hp splitbook. I use Krita and it works just fine 😊 typically don't have anything else open with it so it works near perfect. The pen is nice. Honestly really good investment. Would recommend this device.
It runs Kirta near perfect?! OMG! I think I need this thing.
Is it still working good for you for drawing? I'm looking into the s pro 3 or 4 on eBay used.
"Surface Pen: $100"
Th-This isn't Apple, right?
Love your reviews Brad! You've got this casual, personal way of speaking to the audience that engages me more than many other tech reviewers.
After watching your courses at Udemy and some of your reviews, I can say that the in between animations are a plus. It gives a more relaxed feeling to the review and overall they are funny. Keep it up Brad.
I waited for this woo. It's hard to find reviews from an artist/illustrator's perspective such as you do with your reviews on the surface GO. I'm glad!
Edit:
Guess i'm just gonna wait a bit more until I can save up enough for the PRO. As you mentioned 4gb is not that much and i've already experienced what a nightmare it can be with just photoshop alone, and I plan to be able to use flash/animate. The constant jitters were also a bit turn off. Clean lines are extremely important when it comes to doing lineart for me and that will probably make me less productive if I keep having to encounter that :(
Try Krita. Theres a line smoothing tool, animation sequencer, it runs quite nice and it's free
The most interesting review ever, loved the back and forth with the screen
So I got one of these for art purposes and I just want to add a couple things.
Mainly this is GOOD for art, not great for it. If you're art style is more rendered and you use a lot of different brushes and the like. This device will start slowing down and lagging after you've been at a detailed drawing for while. I had one instance of the whole device freezing up completely. It is a good side device, say if you also have a Wacom pad for a PC in addition to a Surface Go. Overall I like it, but I'll upgrade it eventually.
Subscribed. A refreshing way to watch a tech review.
i didnt know the surface go is that grumpy. imagine its big brother the surface and pro.
The conversations with the animation had me laughing sooooooo much☺️
This is so helpful and also entertaining. Thanks Brad!
this review is one of the best i watched. or maybe the best. your humor is 100%.
i was so unsure to get the surface go or the iPad... in the end i got the ipad and I'm so happy i did so. The App are really what makes the difference
This is the best Surface Go review in YT! Really comprehensive look at the pen's performance.
Yeah, your animations made me subscribe, you're ok but the tablet and crying pen go the extra mile
Boy, you nailed it... I thought I'm just gonna watch 5 to 10 second of this video, but I got hooked instead to the very end. What can I say, you're a real pro.
Anyone else postponed getting some rest after pulling practically an all-nighter to watch Brad's new video?
Just me? :/
Oh u were in jazza’s video
@@hasansabah1309 You referring to the "getting old getting to you" comment? If yes, yup.
Great review, animations perfect, and nice drawing. I wish I could draw! I know practice practice lol.
I have the Go and iPad Pro 10.5, love carrying both.
Please make a video about Animate CC and Surface Pro. So Adobe can see that it is not properly compatible with windows ink
Microsoft is killing it with the Surface line. 5 years ago I never would have considered buying hardware from Microsoft, but they found this nice little niche in the 2-in-1 market. They are more innovative than Apple right now.. they just need to add thunderbolt 3 ports
What a cute review I ever seen on RUclips, brilliant job :D
I saw couple times gesture on zoom did not work for Brad. I have the same issue with Surface and Wacom. So annoying!
Very nice review - always creative
I like the review aside from where you are showing the lag from photoshop but also fail to mention you have adobe animate open in the back ground along with photoshop which would be using resources as well even if it doesnt have a project open. Still tru that the 4gb model is pushing it for PS, I think you should be more open about whats running when youre testing.
I am confused either should I buy surface go or pro 5. Here are the available specs and price:
1. Surface go 4 gb RAM without key board is 495 usd and with key board is 630 usd.
2. Surface go 8 gb Ram with out key board is 685 usd and with key board is 820 USD.
3. Surface pro 5 with core i5 and 8 gb RAM including key board is 960 usd.
My actual inrerest to buy 2 in 1 laptop is to get a small device, easy to carry having Windows option where multi tasking can be perforned, I may play few low graphic games, which I used to play in 2008 on my Pentium 4 ;:)
I have seen bad reviews about surface go mentioning system getting slow on Chrome and while opening multiple tabs on RUclips. i am not looking for a device which gets slow on RUclips as I used to open like 8 or 9 tabs normally and multiple files. I liked Surface go as it is very light weight and handy comparing to Surface pro 5. I am really confused which one to select. I don't consider Surface go with 8 gb as it would be better to buy instead Surface pro 5 with 8 gb as it's on promotion and on a cheap price. Please share your thoughts Surface go 4 gb or pro 5 8 gb ? Plus if any of your valuable experience to share with me. By the way I am a person who likes to keep gadget for a long time. I liked Lenovo miix 320 having keyboard like a laptop but i has Intel Atom processor. Waiting for your feed back. Thanks
can you please review the xp pen artist 12?
Great review Brad! I think you nailed it!
Would you agree that this might work well if you want to mainly use this product for adobe illustrator, autodesk's sketch to draw, coding, maybe basic animation CC, and perhaps quick minimal layout (indesign)?
I made a video reviewing the diagonal jitters and it's pretty bad. Seems like it's just a lot of extra work to get clean lines unless your drawing strokes are very fast. My video is not entertaining like Brad's though...
Yeah thanks Brad for the review, I was hopping you would review it.
I have an iPad Gen 6 and a got a Surface Go, and even if, like said Brad and some other viewer, it lacks of performance, I'm quite happy with it.
I take it everywhere, I use it to Stream my Surface Book 2 (too keep my processor performance), draw, to watch Netflix or Brad into the train or in my bedroom ^^
I was so disappointed by Samsung's Galaxy Book and its S Pen too light, because of the strange tilt configuration…
The Surface Go is more or less the same power (of the GB10), but has the advantage of existing into 2 configurations. And when comparing the 128 Gb model's price to the price of the Galaxy Tab S4 or iPad Pro, it's not that expensive even if you want to add a keyboard, and a stylus (on all of them). I didn't buy a keyboard for my iPad because of the cost + weight that make the iPad's best part go away (it is a nice light tablet to take everywhere, but it become so annoying with the keyboard covers made for it...it's heavy, thick,..). It was also the problem with Galaxy Book's thick Cover (and the support function is not as good as the kickstand of Surface products…
It's true you can't really play on it, but who really expect this ? I still managed to play Fortnite and DB FighterZ or recently Two Point Hospital, but don't expect being able to launch many recent games ^^ But it seems it can be used for game streaming services like Shadow and other.
For drawing I didn't have much problem on Sketchbook and Clip Studio Paint (which is really great) but it's true I could have some of the things reported by Surface Pro Artist or Brad, but not as much as them. I think it really depends on how we use the pen, and how everyone works. As an amateur it works fine, and I still prefer the Surface Pen to the Apple Pencil, unlike you Brad. ;)
I really really don't like the glass to plastic tip feeling even if the pencil is really much optimized for drawing than the Surface Pen, where each soft shoul be optimized for dozen of styluses and technology (and not so many ones compatible with tilt function…).
Anyway thanks for your review(s) Brad !
My understanding is Surface Pen's tip (HB) provides more friction and it should feel more natural than, say, Apple Pencil even without one of those expensive "Paperlike" screen protectors. Am I right? I, too, totally hate that plastic-on-glass slippery feeling...
@@deadby15 That's it, and the 2B tip je even better for friction :)
Tilt is better on iPad thought.
Thx. I gave my iPAD to someone recently, and was thinking of buying a Surface Go. I think I will buy one now. (^_^)
I recommend you to buy Clip Studio Paint, that's the software which render the best with the Microsoft Pen. The tilt works great on it, whereas on Sketchbook it depends of the tool used…
Great review as always Brad. Just confirms my thoughts about using full blown Windows on a drawing device: You need MUCH more processing power than you would out of an iPad or Galaxy tab to get the same drawing experience, and the programs for full Windows are just not optimized/designed for 10" screen drawing, so you need at least a 12" device. Because of this, I actually just purchased my first Apple product. I'm sort of an oddity in the design world, as I have been using Windows machines my whole life and have not had a desire or need to switch to Apple since the platform didn't offer me anything that I couldn't get elsewhere for cheaper. This is no longer the case. Affinity Designer and Procreate are 100% better programs for illustrating on the screen than anything that is available on Windows or on Apple's regular OS--both in terms of ground-up UI design for touch, and for their well-optimized code that just runs so well on a rather basic ARM processor.
The complaint about the quality of lines is user error you have to put the pen on the table first when ever your drawing.
Surf go,Can we use Wi-Fi?or SIM? for network....
My surface pro 4 busted up so I'm thinking of getting this as a replacement - great review! Would've never known my current working pen is worth keeping around for this through other reviews. I'd only use it for taking notes, school stuff, and doodling for fun so I'm not too bothered about performance.
Which software are you using to do the artwork?
@Dan Bobet ah thank you so much.
So, Surface Go or Tab S6?
Same question except samsung s4
Now we need a comparison between the surface go, the ipad and the galaxy tab s4
Yup.. production quality is really gettin gup there Brad! Subscribed!
I had to use the glove as well on any surface device. It is picking up your hand. Glad I am not the only one.
I LOVE the animation! Nice way to make a unique review!
Oooo nice animations. quick funny and helped with the pacing. love it!
@Brad is there yet a way to use the Surface Go with Windows PC as some are using the iPad (Astropad) with the Mac? I get that the Surface Go is a "full" pc but I would still like the benefit of the PC doing the work and the tablet functioning as an input device with less workload.
try an older version of ps?
Thank you for doing this, useful! Would you recommend picking up a used SP3 instead? (They are the only ones I'm finding in this price range - unless you pick up damaged devices)
ouch,,, i already dropped my plan to get surface go, but now that i watched your video...i feel convinced
Thanks for the review on the Surface Go. What is the drawing glove that you use? I tried one but the screen still picks up my palm on the Surface Pro.
Are you using both surface go and surface pro in the video? Since Photoshop works flawless in some parts(the head drawing) but bad when you show us how bad it works.
I was wondering that too. He says photoshop is too slow, but has video of fast, responsive photoshop.
@@tylocook indeed. I just bought it today but i dont have Photoshop doh
I mean i bought the Surface Go 8GB.
Philip Karlsson Hi Philip, how is it going with your surface Go with 8 GB ram? Was it a good purchase?
How it works with Photoshop or other drawing applications?
@@FabioSalvidotcom Hello! I've been using it at university mostly doing stuff like Word, Excel, google online documents, 3D programs like PTC Creo, 3Ds Max and some drawing with the Leonardo app and some light photoshop recently actually. And I would strongly recommend this as a perfect solution for some mid-light heavy work when you're not on your stationary computer. It runs flawlessly with multiple programs and chrome tabs open, no worries at all. Everything else other ppl saying is just nonsense. However, Chrome has some issue with the touch function on the Surface Go which makes it "slow" when zooming and panning with fingers, but hopefully it can get fixed with some update. But it doesn't mind me that much. When it comes to drawing I like it very much, its simple and it has good precision. It has some jitter when doing some diagonal lines sometimes and for a professional, that could be annoying, but it also differs from program to program. So it CAN definitely run programs like photoshop as others, and it runs them well. But if you wanna do like really heavy stuff its not for that. And the pen is awesome. I actually used this computer only for one subject at the school where we used PTC Creo to do some CAD work, and it worked out very good. If you want I could try to show you specific stuff if you want, through email or something. I could also try put something up at youtube, I've never done it doh but I could surly try.
Brad you inspired me to be an artist and your my favorite one
I love the talking tablet, very cute!
love the grumpy tablet guy hes great make another anim please
Good review, especially about photoshop, how does it work with visual studio 2017?
Do you suppose I could find a refurbished or “open box” (yet in good condition) unit one of these on Amazon or Ebay, for $200 - $300? Not even with the whole package, just the basic tablet itself. I can get the keyboard and pen later.
Did you get it or surface Pro?
Stumbled upon this video and really really enjoyed it!! 👍🏻
Very honest and good review! Thanks!
Hey I was just wondering what version on Photoshop/illustrator you are running? Photoshopcc?
Best I have ever watched regarding the surface Go. After the long term usage, did you face any issues or do you still recommend it?
I love how non tech people think more ram is so important.
Ram doesn't really make things run smoother. Ram speed is important, but ram capacity is less so. If you have 4 gigs, your performance will be identical when you're only using 1 gig as if you're using 3.99 gigs. you only notice anything at all once you exceed it. So unless you PLAN on opening 5+ programs at once, 10+ chrome tabs, and 1-2 performance intensive applications, you won't exceed 4 gigs. If you're editing gigantic files, thats a different story. But somehow i doubt EVERYBODY does video editing. On all of these goddamn comment sections everyone pretends they are a photo editor. I've gone my entire life without editing a single image. I think for 95% of the populace, 4 gigs of ram is absolutely fine.
so this would work as a portable sketchbook replacement?
will you be reviewing the new go 2? wondering if the pen's experience is the same ...
Entertaining and informative as always!
Can I comfortably use this for the whole process of animating? Thank KS
Love the little animations in this video! Keep it up! Any chance you'll be reviewing the new Parblo Mast 22? I've been dying to see it in action, but no one's talking about it yet!
What application is being used to draw on?
killahyj Looks like sketchable
I still use my Surface Pro 3 i5 for drawing on the go.
and Im still loving it, i try Photoshop but in the end i find Photoshop very horrible for drawing. Im now using Clip Studio Paint because it has modes for Touch and normal use. but Im not a Professional Artist.
Does it work in Adobe Illustrator?
Hi Brad, right now I'm using a Chromebook and I was thinking about getting into art digitally (right now I'm traditional). Idk anything about digital art would you recommend something like this for someone like me? Mostly I only use my computer for web browsing and all my photos and images get saved on cloud/onedrive. I thought the surface go would be a good artist upgrade/investment?
Finally I’ve been waiting on this video
Sounds like a great cheap on the go sketch book. It’s cheaper than the iPad Pro 2018 ANd it’s actually a computer. Granted, it’s weak but us artists rarely need more than these specs.
Did you buy a surface go or pro?
Any updates on the huion 13 tablet pen proplem?
wut glove did ya use? I keep reading people having issues with them not sure if it's fine with the Go but have just been using a microfiber cloth in the meantime lol
Now I am starting to doubt if my hand was the culprit when I tried my colleague's maxed out surface book. I thought the wiggled lines was because it was very sensitive.
What about its temperature? Does it heat when drawing to the point it's uncomfortable?
sam aj x2
Could you please look for a nice animation app for the iPad!
What would you say is better for drawing an iPad pro or a mircosoft surface pro?
Zachary Joseph maybe, but the bad thing for ipad is the limit software you can use for it. Not adobe version complete in ipad.
Def should do a follow up comparing it to the cheapo 2018 ipad
What is the 1 software you are using for painting? looks neat for on the go :)
What is a good drawing app for Microsoft Surface Go ? I have home version windows and a type cover, newest pen, and Surface Mobile Mouse to.
how does the drawing aspects compare to the ipad 2018, or to the ipad pro?
Do you think that I could use this for Photoshop animation?
Do we have to download the painting app seperately or does it come with it originally?
Thank you for this review! I was set on getting an iPad Pro cause it seems like that’s the go to, but this tablet seems like it’s gonna do all that I need of it, and it’s literally less than half the price of the iPad! Thank you!
Hey I was wondering if I should get this or the 5. I’m a beginner at drawing and I want to get better at it
Would love to see a review of a Wacom's Cintiq Pro. You're by far the best tablet reviewer on YT and It'd be really interesting to see your take on Wacom's newest, top-of-the-line products as compared to the more budget-oriented alternatives by Huion, XP-pen and what-not which you've already reviewed.
I have bought a Cintiq Pro 13 after watched all of his videos. The Wacom's quality is so great that I have no regret at all!
Now I only have a kidney... /jk
S mode was such a nightmare to get out of. Thank God I figured it out. S mode is horrifying
Can you use other stylus (such as Wacom) with this for all apps? Thus saving the $$ of the Go stylus?
Can an ordinary pen for drawing tablet pen (huion 1060 pen) can be used in Surface go? Or it should be installed on the surface go.
I plan to get a top end surface book in the futute for my more heavy lifting video editing but I also need a smaller more efficient device that could not only do media consumption but also for coding, photo editing and maybe .... if possible ..... some light on the go video editing.
I will be doing all this in adobe cc suite.
Can this pull that off with 8gb ram?
This or the Samsung Tab S4 (with the wacom digitizer)? I had a Surface Pro 3 before but it wasn't that great for art (ntrig pen wobbly lines with only 256 levels of pressure)
I wonder how Surface Go works with Adobe Illustrator. I'm guessing better?