The Go is an Intel-based chipset and they finally dropped the buggy as hell marvel chipset for wifi... What "shitty" hardware are you speaking of?
I love my SP4, may replace it with a Surace Go gen2 if they keep the formfacter/weight down like that.
I love my SP4, may replace it with a Surace Go gen2 if they keep the formfacter/weight down like that.
BTW, The Qualcomm wifi chipset is a BLESSING and considering the Surface Go is < 1 month old i'm sure its only a matter of time before open source drivers improve for it.
Uh, I (and you, and everyone except Qualcomm) cannot do that. ath10k drivers are inherently broken without a proprietary firmware because "blah blah 802.11ac blah blah" waves hands around
The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while.
Nope.
The atheros chip is new, every single surface device used MARVEL and MARVEL was total crap - always having issues connecting, flaky drivers, poor standby experience. The surface go is the first device to not use marvel and i hope the next Pro's and Surface Laptops go atheros.
This old adage has never made sense to me. Not everyone can write software (let alone device drivers).
It's unfortunate that the Qualcomm WiFi does not work out of the box. However, the fix is fairly easy, and day-to-day WiFi performance is solid: fast, stable, no issues resuming from hibernate/suspend.