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MICROSOFT HAS A PATCHY RECORD with hardware, but its Surface laptops have been a success. It has just launched the Surface Laptop Go 2, an update on its most budgetfriendly member of the Surface squad. The $599 laptop is in the competitive Chromebook territory. The changes are mainly on the inside of the aluminum/polycarbonate case with a Core i5-1135G7 processor, a four-core Tiger Lake chip with a base clock of 2.4GHz, and a maximum boost of 4.2GHz, with integrated Iris Xe graphics (that’s $309 retail already). This is coupled with either 128GB or 256GB of solid-state storage, and 4GB or 8GB of RAM. The screen remains the same 12.4-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1,536x1,024. Key travel is now 30 percent greater than a MacBook Air and we also get a new color (sage) and over 13 hours of battery life from the thinnest and lightest Surface laptop you can get. It’s not a major update but it still looks pretty cool. –CL