It's the last number that matters for performance, which is about half the speed. You'd expect a tech person to know that sequential read speeds are pretty much irrelevant in terms of performance - only for copying and installing.

(Remember, the original Surface 3 shipped with 2GB of RAM as the entry-level!) If you're using the Surface Go for email, some web browsing in Edge, watching Netflix or Hulu, listening to Spotify, or using Microsoft Office I would say no, not really. Does it matter?īenchmarks are one thing, but does any of it matter? As usual with all things PC: it depends. (Personally speaking, I've used laptops with 4GB of RAM and think the hysteria against them is often overblown). Nonetheless, you can hit a wall if running 20 tabs in a browser with some more heavy apps running, but that is the tradeoff for a $399 PC versus something more expensive. Windows 10 does do an excellent job of managing memory even at the 4GB level compared to what it was like years ago.

The question if 4GB of RAM is too little depends on your usage and expectations. Without even loading any apps RAM usage is already around 58% capacity. You can add more storage through the micro SD slot under the kickstand for music, videos, documents, photos and more. Other curious bits: Users have just over 40GB of free space out of the entire 64GB for storage.

Surface laptop go memory upgrade