Is the laptop suitable for programming?

Since I travel a lot, want to draw on the laptop and need a laptop for office work, the Microsoft surface go appeals to me pretty much. 8GB of RAM and 126GB of storage space are fine for me as well. But now I also wanted to know if you would recommend this for programming? Sure, it's always better. But could you easily build websites and stuff like that with the Microsoft Surface Go? So HTML, programming languages such as Javascript, C, C ++ etc. And still nh small question, you can both the memory and the. Upgrade other memory (forgot name) on the laptop?

Depends on what you mean by "programming". You can certainly put together a bit of HTML on it. Also, you will certainly be able to program properly in programming languages.

A bigger IDE like Eclipse, Android Studio or Visual Studio will probably not be fun on that.

For this is less the RAM and SSD size crucial (both will be enough), as the processor power (processor type you have not specified).

The Surface Go is not a notebook, but a tablet with a plugged keyboard. Note the restrictions on ports and the fact that you can't upgrade anything (not even RAM!). What you buy there, then you have.

Well, so as long as the web pages are not supposed to involve any very extreme algorithms, or elaborate image animations, it should be sufficient for the time being. Interesting in something like that is not the hard disk space, rather which hard drive, which is probably run rather on SSD or M.2 here. The memory is good, but the processor is ok. But there should be no problems at first.

I'm not sure if it works, probably not, and if the processor can handle only up to 16 GB of RAM anyway. Here is the link to the spec's: https://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/products/processors/pentium/4415y.html

Otherwise, I'm sure that the housing may only be opened by trained personnel, as long as the warranty is valid, if everything is not stuck inside anyway. So I would go to a Microsoft service, but certainly not a nice buddy who understands a bit of PC's.

The Prozi makes me worry, here's the link: https://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/products/processors/pentium/4415y.html

Jo. Me too. My wife has a Surface Pro II and that would not be enough for me to program.

Well, so if it should be a decent laptop, or a laptop. With an i5 of the slightly newer variety. Even for HTML I would not take an i3. If then times the IDE abkackt rips the whole PC down. Maybe not a blue screen but a gefreezter screen by all means.

I have no Surface:-) But I would take such a thing anyway only for normal office work (like my wife).

I just want to point out a few basic "little things" that have not been mentioned:

If you want to work well with such a device, so also want to program, an additional "number pad" is very beneficial.

Either directly on a correspondingly wider keyboard, or as an accessory on the USB port, or via Bluetooth.

And it would be of enormous advantage if the device had an anti-reflective display.

Such devices with a so-called "glossy" display, also derogatory called "shaving mirror", can only be read with great difficulty in changing light conditions.

These displays are "nice" for watching pictures and video, but not for working.

Although there are also "bulletproof" protective films specifically designed for this model to protect the screen from scratches and to reduce the screen's reflectivity. But sometimes these films should also affect the sensitivity of the touch screen.

And what really bothers me, especially on the keyboard of this tablet PC, is the arrangement of the cursor keys (right-down). The arrangement is very unnatural.

It is exhausting in the long run to use them. Your fingers will cramp very fast (=> experience!). And while programming you are constantly navigating through the program code.

The arrangement, as on a normal PC keyboard, is far preferable to [left], [down], [right] and above (center) [up].

Unfortunately, not everything is always possible or affordable. You always have to compromise somewhere.