I also like how the frost keys color-match the deck it gives the Surface Laptop Go a more cohesive aesthetic than the MacBook Air, which comes with black keys regardless of the exterior color.

And with 1.3 millimeters of travel, the keys have a satisfying tactility I didn't expect on a laptop this small. The Chiclet-style keys are so bouncy that my fingers effortlessly jumped from one letter to the next. I've gushed about Microsoft's Surface keyboard in previous reviews, so I was happy to see it return on the Surface Laptop Go. The display reaches a peak brightness of 319 nits, a decent result but dimmer than competitors, including the ZenBook 13 UX325EA (370 nits), Surface Go 2 (408 nits), PixelBook Go (368 nits), Envy x360 13 (364 nits) and the category average (301 nits). It is more colorful than the average mainstream laptop (67%). According to our colorimeter, the Surface Laptop Go's screen covers 77% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, making it about as vivid as the displays on the ZenBook 13 UX325EA (76%), the Pixelbook Go (77%), Surface Go 2 (76%) and the Envy x360 13 (76%).

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