I sometimes question my judgement as well
After all, I have a desktop PC with 4 monitors attached to it, an 8" Windows tablet, a 12" Windows laptop, no job at the moment due to Covid, and have been stuck indoors for four months due to Covid, but still spent £200 on a second hand Surface Go bundle on Ebay last month! In my defence, I did justify the purchase by calling it a present to myself using some of the money I've saved from not being able to go to the pub while we've been in lockdown this year
I've played a couple of VASL games so far and found it works just as well as the desktop machine. Although it only has a 10" screen the resolution is 1800x1200 and as you can see from the screenshot above that's enough space to have the VASL controls down one side and the map taking up the remaining three quarters of it.
It also works well with the USB-powered monitor I've been using with my laptop for the past 10 years when away from home (IE at ASL tournaments!), which lets me replicate how I play on the desktop (IE VASL on my main monitor, the eASLRB open on another, so you don't have to keep switching back and forth between programs
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I have the Surface Dock as well, which allows you to use the Surface Go and two 4K monitors at the same time, although I but don't have any 4K monitors (or the money to buy any :-( ) to see what VASL would look like on such a setup :-( Maybe I should do a VFTT donor drive to raise funds to replicate this setup for VASL testing purposes
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(pic from
https://web.archive.org/web/20170610231256/https:/blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/05/23/5-ways-surface-dock-makes-your-surface-even-more-awesome/)
Pete