Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by makaroni1 » Mon, May 11, 2020, 9:00 AM UTC

Microsoft Surface Go 2 review
techcrunch.com

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by GEBBL » Mon, May 11, 2020, 9:47 AM UTC

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by bigp3t3 » Mon, May 11, 2020, 9:55 AM UTC

GEBBL wrote: post #2

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

I believe it changes the URL when you move on to the next article

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 11, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC

GEBBL wrote: post #2

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

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Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by skocznymroczny » Mon, May 11, 2020, 9:58 AM UTC

Too bad they're sticking with the kickstand design. Makes the device so unusable on the lap (as mentioned in the review). I have the original Go and I can't actually complain about the performance, but it's very hard to use without a flat surface. It's also unusable in your hand, e.g. to show something to someone while standing up.

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by GEBBL » Mon, May 11, 2020, 9:59 AM UTC

bigp3t3 wrote: post #3

GEBBL wrote: post #2

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

I believe it changes the URL when you move on to the next article

Hmm, it’s stopped happening for me now.

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by radoslawc » Mon, May 11, 2020, 10:12 AM UTC

GEBBL wrote: post #2

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

If you scroll down below comments section URL changes to https://techcrunch.com/ then if you press https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/08/microsoft-surface-go-2-rev... If you do it 6 times you'll have to "go back" six times. Maybe not back button hijacking, but outcome's the same, and it's pretty annoying I admit.

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by disiplus » Mon, May 11, 2020, 10:12 AM UTC

skocznymroczny wrote: post #5

Too bad they're sticking with the kickstand design. Makes the device so unusable on the lap (as mentioned in the review). I have the original Go and I can't actually complain about the performance, but it's very hard to use without a flat surface. It's also unusable in your hand, e.g. to show something to someone while standing up.

i have a surface 3, how is it hard to show something to somebody ?

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by matijs » Mon, May 11, 2020, 10:13 AM UTC

GEBBL wrote: post #2

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

TechCrunch apparently force a 307 Temporary Redirect to some advertising.com domain first :/

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by ABS » Mon, May 11, 2020, 10:15 AM UTC

skocznymroczny wrote: post #5

Too bad they're sticking with the kickstand design. Makes the device so unusable on the lap (as mentioned in the review). I have the original Go and I can't actually complain about the performance, but it's very hard to use without a flat surface. It's also unusable in your hand, e.g. to show something to someone while standing up.

I have the exact opposite complaint :-) the kickstand is not a problem but performance is so abysmal I can basically keep only one application open at the time.

I often wondered what I was doing wrong since many people are reasonably happy with its performance but never found an answer, even after disabling everything that can be disabled.