The least wobbly pen is the recently released Adonit Ink, but it offers the worst pressure response of any of my MPP pens. It’s impossible to ink thin lines with it.

If you can find an older Surface Pro 4 pen, you’ll get a decent compromise with less obvious fish hooks and lower jitter.

But if inking is the only reason you’re considering the Go, there is one 10.6-inch alternative to consider, the Samsung Galaxy Book, which retails for $629 with keyboard and S-Pen. Only $30 more than a base Surface Go with pen and keyboard, the Galaxy Book is a dream device that sports a seventh generation m3 processor. I own the 12-inch Galaxy Book and love it and with my new-found respect for the advantages of a smaller device, I may have to give the 10.6 a second look.

RETURNING TO THE GO, most early reviewers opted to migrate their devices to Windows 10 Home or Pro immediately. The Surface Go ships in S Mode, which limits users to Windows Store apps. For artists, this means a healthy selection of options including Autodesk Sketchbook, Sketchable, Krita, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer and the newly released Concepts which is a popular iPad design app.

Along with the full Office suite, several PDF readers, music, film and tv players, I could imagine living securely and comfortably in S Mode. If you buy a Go and don’t need to run Adobe software or Clip Studio, resist the urge to migrate just for the sake of Chrome. The Edge browser has come a long way. Give it a chance before you set it aside.

Battery life is good but more like six hours per charge vs. the advertised nine. There’s only a Type C connector, which I’m sure I’ll come to loath at some point. I hate dongles and I don’t yet have a type C flash drive. The Surface Go also has a microSD slot under the kickstand which will be useful for storing images and documents. After a week of work and installing all the apps I intend to, I’ve got 27.7 GB of storage left.