{"id":2574,"date":"2020-10-16T05:56:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2020-10-16T05:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:56:37","slug":"forget-the-surface-go-2-tablet-this-challenger-comes-with-a-keyboard-and-stylus-for-half-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/forget-the-surface-go-2-tablet-this-challenger-comes-with-a-keyboard-and-stylus-for-half-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Surface Go 2 tablet, this challenger comes with a keyboard and stylus for half the price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The new&nbsp;Surface Go 2&nbsp;tablet from Microsoft received a solid review from TechRadar; we described it as \u201can excellent affordable Windows 10 tablet that features a premium design found in the company&#8217;s more expensive devices\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if you want something even more affordable, you should check out the Pipo W11, which retails for about half the price of Microsoft\u2019s diminutive tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pipo is not a household name, but we&#8217;ve known about the company since 2014 when it unveiled the&nbsp;Pipo W2&nbsp;tablet. The&nbsp;W11&nbsp;follows in the footsteps of that 6-year old device, which back in the day ran on a little-known OS called Windows 8.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The W11 also comes with a keyboard cover and stylus, all for the princely sum of $269.99 (\u00a3212.40\/AU$383.51). For comparison, the cheapest Surface Go 2 configuration with pen and keyboard cover retails for $568.97 &#8211; more than twice the price.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The W11 wins out when it comes to performance, with its Celeron N4100 CPU trouncing the Surface Go 2&#8217;s Pentium 4425Y, according to CPUBenchmark. It&#8217;s also superior when it comes to storage (Pipo\u2019s candidate has 64GB eMMC plus a dedicated 180GB SSD) and connectivity (the W11 has three more ports than its rival).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, the Surface Go 2 has a smaller screen with a higher resolution, which produces sharper pictures, plus a bigger battery capacity and a longer battery life, higher resolution cameras, faster Wi-Fi\/Bluetooth and is far lighter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Businesses looking for a cheap&nbsp;business tablet&nbsp;are also likely to side with Microsoft\u2019s device because of the return policy, the free technical support and in-store assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new&nbsp;Surface Go 2&nbsp;tablet from Microsoft received a solid review from TechRadar; we described it as \u201can excellent affordable Windows 10 tablet that features a premium design found in the company&#8217;s more expensive devices\u201d.&nbsp; However, if you want something even more affordable, you should check out the Pipo W11, which retails for about half the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/forget-the-surface-go-2-tablet-this-challenger-comes-with-a-keyboard-and-stylus-for-half-the-price\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forget the Surface Go 2 tablet, this challenger comes with a keyboard and stylus for half the price&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[1948,1136],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tablet-pc","tag-pipo-w2","tag-surface-go-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-battery.com\/batteriesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}