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When Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Go, a cheaper, smaller version of its excellent Surface Laptop, I wondered how the company would pull it off. After all, I’ve said that a truly great budget laptop is something of a PC holy grail — very valuable but also about as hard to find.

Laptops around the $500 mark have to make tough decisions and compromise on design, materials, performance or features, doing well in one area, but poorly in others. Even shopping for a budget laptop has become increasingly difficult in 2020, as remote workers and students quickly snatch up any half-decent budget laptops, leaving many out of stock.