Looking forward to the review videos! Regarding the hardware, the Surface Go you linked to has twice the system memory at half the price. There may be other features you're looking for on the Tab Ultra (what kind of name is Boox?), but from a Productivity perspective, the Surface Go seems to be ahead of the rest.
Kristin, I don't have a Surface Go but I swear by my trusty Surface Pro 6 (a 5 year old laptop). Yeah I'd like a more substantial keyboard, but the Pro is an EXTREMELY light and silent device, basically a souped-up tablet, so I deal with it. The big difference between the Go and the Boox seems to boil down to the Go being a laptop junior, and the Boox is more of a glorified e-reader, an updated Kindle. These Android tablets (and this is coming from a loyal Samsung guy), will only do so much before their "mobileness" starts showing. To explain: since the newer Go tablets run Windows 11, they will likely also run the full MS Office suite, which you may need someday vice the mobile version of O365 which is probably all you can get on the BOOX running the Android 11 OS. The mobile versions of each Office product has less features (differences are detailed in the link below). Limited and mobile software is one reason I'm bald, btw; apps on my Android can be SUPER frustrating. You may say you don't NEED all the fancy features of the full products, but you won't feel it until the day comes when you're at the coffee shop tweaking book 3 of the Mason Timeline, or a presentation for one of your upcoming classes if you still do those, and, well, you can't do what you want and your blood pressure spikes because your deadline is about to make that whooshing sound as it blows by. I mean if they're the same price, having Win11 on a tried-and-true Microsoft product is probably your best bet.
Looking forward to the review videos! Regarding the hardware, the Surface Go you linked to has twice the system memory at half the price. There may be other features you're looking for on the Tab Ultra (what kind of name is Boox?), but from a Productivity perspective, the Surface Go seems to be ahead of the rest.
Kristin, I don't have a Surface Go but I swear by my trusty Surface Pro 6 (a 5 year old laptop). Yeah I'd like a more substantial keyboard, but the Pro is an EXTREMELY light and silent device, basically a souped-up tablet, so I deal with it. The big difference between the Go and the Boox seems to boil down to the Go being a laptop junior, and the Boox is more of a glorified e-reader, an updated Kindle. These Android tablets (and this is coming from a loyal Samsung guy), will only do so much before their "mobileness" starts showing. To explain: since the newer Go tablets run Windows 11, they will likely also run the full MS Office suite, which you may need someday vice the mobile version of O365 which is probably all you can get on the BOOX running the Android 11 OS. The mobile versions of each Office product has less features (differences are detailed in the link below). Limited and mobile software is one reason I'm bald, btw; apps on my Android can be SUPER frustrating. You may say you don't NEED all the fancy features of the full products, but you won't feel it until the day comes when you're at the coffee shop tweaking book 3 of the Mason Timeline, or a presentation for one of your upcoming classes if you still do those, and, well, you can't do what you want and your blood pressure spikes because your deadline is about to make that whooshing sound as it blows by. I mean if they're the same price, having Win11 on a tried-and-true Microsoft product is probably your best bet.
:) Differences in mobile vs full versions of Office: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-online-service-description/office-online-service-description?redirectedfrom=MSDN