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Hands on Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3: an incremental upgrade that'll cost you

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Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3: One-minute review If you work a lot on the go, there is nothing better than a thin and light laptop that promises an all-day battery life. Certainly, on paper at least, the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 promises all that. It weighs just 2.49 lbs (a tiny uptick of 0.01 lbs from the last model), is a little over a half-inch thick, and is less than 11 inches wide by just over 8 inches deep (slightly longer than the Laptop Go 2). Microsoft promises it can get up to 15 hours of battery life with "typical device usage," which is 2 hours more than the last model.  It has a full-sized keyboard, a large enough 12.4-inch touch screen (that's surface Pen-ready), a spacious trackpad, and looks and feels ready for the road. The Surface Laptop Go line always seemed to strike the right balance between portability and price. Oddly, the Surface Laptop Go 3 is breaking that mold a bit but raising the price $200 to $799 in the US. that does seem a lot mo...