You should temper your expectations with the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3. No, this isn't a performance ... the 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro has more screen real estate than the display on this ...

After Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Go 3 at the Surface event on Thursday ... to see the contents on your display. However, a dim screen is par for the course for a sub-$800 laptop.

Like all Apple notebooks, the display is not a touch screen ... go up to 16 GB of RAM, however. Other options are 8 GB of RAM on the Surface Laptop 3 and either 8 or 16 GB on the MacBook Pro ...