Lisa Gade spends time with the upcoming Microsoft Surface Studio and gives you her first impressions/mini review. This is an all-in-one desktop with a unique gravity hinge that allows you to tilt the 28” Pixel Sense wide gamut DCI-P3 5K (4500 x 3000 resolution, 3:2 aspect ratio) display at a variety of angles (even nearly flat). The display supports touch and the same N-Trig active pen used on the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4. The Studio is available with Intel 6th generation Skylake quad core, 45 watt CPUs and your choice of NVIDIA GTX 965M or GTX 980M cards (last gen Maxwell mobile graphics cards). It supports up to 32 gigs of RAM, and ships with a boot SDD plus large capacity SSD.
Ports are decent given the small size of the base- 4 USB 3.0 ports, mini DisplayPort, 3.5mm audio and an SD card slot. Other amenities include a 5MP Windows Hello front camera, 2.1 stereo speakers and WiFi 802.11ac with Bluetooth. The Surface keyboard, mouse and pen are included in the box (the new Surface Dial is $99 unless you pre-order the Studio). Pricing runs from $2,999 to $4,199 and it will be available at the end of 2016 to early 2017. At these prices, it's clearly more of a showcase product and a competitor to high end Wacom graphics workstations rather than a replacement for your everyday AiO.
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