Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio Unboxing and Review!”.
What’S going on guys, travis consumer and today we’re going to be taking a look at the brand new surface laptop studio, the newest addition to the surface lineup. We will no longer be seeing that surface book get updates breaks my heart a little bit, but i am happy to see the surface laptop studio is what takes its place, i’m personally going to miss being able to take the screen off of the surface book. But this one can do a couple of cool things that you wouldn’t expect from a laptop too. Now, before we get started, we have to take a quick look at what you get when you pick up the surface laptop studio and as you’d expect comes some pretty standard, surface packaging.
It’S a very clean and minimal. Look on the box, but once you pop it open you’re, of course, greeted with the surface laptop itself which we’ll put to the side and under that there’s really not much else. You do get your hands on some paperwork and you’ll, of course, get the included charger. This is the surface connect charger and this guy’s actually rated at 102 watts. You actually notice it’s quite bigger than the surface pro charger and that’s about it in terms of extras now. You, of course, get your hands on the surface laptop studio and i got ta say guys immediately like any other surface device. This thing feels very very premium. It definitely gives you that high end feel that we got from the surface book, but i do think my favorite part of the unboxing is actually turning it on and getting greeted with windows 11.. But we’ll talk about windows 11.
Later, let’s get on to the review. So we’ve got a really flexible screen over here. Obviously this is like your standard laptop mode, but you can actually pop the screen out bring it forward, and this is kind of reminiscent of the surface pro. So you’ve got like the kickstand.
You got the screen like the surface pro and you can even take the screen and tilt it all the way down kind of like the surface studio. You know the big all-in-one you’ve got that same functionality as well. Microsoft knows a thing or two about hinges and, as you can see, they’re really trying to get as much use out of the hinge here as possible. So this is pretty much like your tablet mode.
There’S like a little piece right here, where that you can kind of grab onto makes it really easy to hold it in the hand. So you’ve got your tablet mode. Only thing, that’s a little bit weird about using it in tablet mode. Is that there’s no power button or volume buttons? It’S all going to have to be software or you’re going to have to like straight up close the lid? So if you’re used to using your surface book – and you hit the power button when it’s in tablet mode, you don’t really have those options here and if you want an uninterrupted viewing experience, you can kind of just throw it like this.
Have the keyboard be the kickstand, and you can watch content like this, so just like with the surface book, this screen can do a lot. Microsoft did a really good job with these hinges, as you guys can see here. They use like these ribbons to have all the connectors and drivers of the display go right through here. It’S nice clean uh.
It’S honestly just like a really good design. I personally like it now. One question people might have is how sturdy is the screen. Is it gon na flip on me whenever i try to do something not really, i do think it does have like a couple of weak points, so if you’re messing around with the corners, i think that’s when you can introduce this kind of thing right here, where It flaps open these are really strong, hinges and magnets that keep it down, but when you’re getting it from the middle, it is completely fine, but i do notice that it’s a lot easier to tilt that screen forward grabbing it from the corners and you’ll especially want To avoid those corners, if you have like a program open, let’s say we have like excel right: you go to grab it like this you’ll notice that i almost exited the application here, because my finger touched the x so be very careful if you get your hands On this, try to get used to just doing it right from the middle or even the center of the screen itself, where you can just take it and tilt it and then adjust it in the way you want. But i like the functionality that the screen brings to the table. I’Ve seen some people in the comments of like my first video talking about this saying. Oh hp’s been doing this forever, there’s other laptops that do it. So it’s one of those, oh somebody else did it first kind of things, but regardless it’s still cool to see here now the surface laptop studio does have a really nice display. This is microsoft’s pixelsense flow display it’s a 14.4 inch screen and it looks really good. Now, when it comes like using this device for content consumption, so watching something in laptop mode, absolutely normal experience, this has really solid speakers. They’Re supposed to be dolby at most rated. The sound is really full.
It’S got a smidge of bass to it a lot more rich than i hear with other laptops, so kudos to microsoft. For that really good sounding speakers, but when you do turn it into like, let’s say this mode right here: it kind of sounds like the music is coming in through a tunnel which makes sense uh. It doesn’t sound bad, but it does sound different and even a little bit in this mode as well uh. They all sound, fine, you’re, not gon na really complain. But if you’re in the middle of watching something – and you just decided to switch the screen, don’t be surprised to just hear a little shift in the audio.
But i will say this laptop has some really good speakers. But now, let’s kind of talk about the rest of the design right. So, as you can see, this is a really interesting laptop design.
So you’ve got like pretty much two layers to the bottom of the laptop and, as you can see, the sides have the vents. So this is where you get the thermal solution for the laptop studio. Now, when i first saw this, i was like oh man, it is gon na be so weird to put my palms on this.
It’S probably gon na shake uh, but absolutely not. This thing has not tilted or done anything weird at all. Uh, it’s been extremely solid, even though the edges are kind of like hanging off on our on their own, so it feels extremely comfortable to use uh, but you’ll also notice, there’s a spot right here at the bottom for the surface, slim pen too. So it’s magnetic it’ll also charge the pen and it’s a nice easy spot to put it and you know grab whenever you need it. So we’ll talk about this pen in a second, but it is a nice convenient spot to store that now, above the vents, we have two thunderbolt 4 ports on the left side and on the other side we have the surface connect port, which is where you’ll charge.
It as well as a headphone jack kind of sucks to not see a usb type, a port on this, but you know we’ve been dying for thunderbolt 4, so i can’t complain too much. This is going to be great if you want to have like thunderbolt accessories like really fast storage or even external gpus, whatever it might be. This is now going to be able to support, really fast speeds, so very, very happy to see that, but really quick. I want to touch back on the vents now.
I think the weirdest part about this thermal solution is just the way it dissipates heat. So when the fans kick on, they actually blow out air towards the sides. But it’s like right in this vicinity right here and on the opposite side. That’S where all that airflow just gets pushed out. So it can get a little bit weird if you’re doing something taxing.
So if you’re like playing a game and you’re using your mouse you’re going to feel the fan blow the heat right onto your hand, it’s it’s not a big deal, but it’s not something i’ve ever experienced with a laptop before. Usually they send the heat out through the back or something i’ve never just had the fans, though, blowing directly on my hand, as i’m doing anything intensive now. For me, it’s not a big deal. I play my games on my laptops with a controller, so i don’t really care because i know certain people are really crazy about the sensitivity of their mouse and they probably don’t want anything messing with their hand. While they’re gaming, you might be a little annoyed that there’s a fan blowing on your hand while you’re playing – but i will say gaming on this – has been pretty dope. It can have up to a nvidia, rtx 3050 ti and you you hear 50 ti you’re like oh, that’s like one of the low cards, but in all the games that i’ve been playing. It actually ran really well and everything looked really good.
I’M a big apex, legends kind of guy i’ve been playing that and i could not complain about the graphics. I’Ve also been playing scarlet nexus on this. Interestingly enough, i had to take off the locked frame rate of 60 frames in order to get smoother performance, which was way higher than 60, but either way gaming for me on, this has been great and speaking of frame rates. This is a 120 hertz display.
So if you have a game or anything that can take advantage of being 120 hertz, you have access to that here. I honestly really like the bezels on the screen and how it’s just kind of rounded into corners but yeah. I like the display. I, like the size overall, throw this thing in a backpack is not going to be a big deal now, of course, this thing also has a camera. One thing that i like with it is that no matter the lighting situation, even though there’s like some big bright lights behind me or if i turn around doesn’t matter what the situation is, i stay nice and clear. You know i can get really dark really fast depending on the lighting situation, but this thing does a really good job of making sure that i am well lit. Yeah go ahead, carl show him show him your moves, that’s how carl dances y’all. Now, of course, it has all these form factors.
You’Ve got the surface slim pen, 2.. Obviously, microsoft is thinking about creators with this device. So if you’re, an artist or something you’ve, got multiple ways to go ahead and draw on this, obviously you can have it all the way down. Let’S see, let’s, let’s open up whiteboard huh, i’m showing you guys some some skills really quickly. Nah, not my handwriting! We ain’t talking about that carl i’m gon na draw something real quick. What should i draw carl? No something else i’m going to draw spider-man because i know how to draw spider-man just a little bit.
So if you like, drawing on this, it’s actually not so, if you’re planning on using this with the slim pen too, this is probably like your ideal way nope. So if you plan on using this with the slim pen too, this is probably the i um jay you’re, making me nervous bro get out of here. Oh my god, i can’t listen. What am i doing here see i’m i’m over here in presenter mode. I need to be in artist mode, i’m not even gon na talk to you guys hold on i’m gon na get this right. First, all right, all right! You know what you guys see it coming to life act like you know, i don’t, but you can see the possibilities are there.
This is no reflection of what the surface is capable of, but either way. This is the way you’d wan na you know, produce your art at least i think so. Uh something that’s really cool about the surface. Slim pen, too, is the fact that it can actually send haptic feedback while you’re drawing on something like whiteboard that we have over here. It gives you like that scratchy feel like you’re, drawing on a piece of paper. So if you like the sensation of putting like pen to paper, this is probably the closest thing we have out right now.
It’S actually pretty cool because you can go into settings and you can change the intensity of the tactile signal, so you can have it at 100.. I feel most comfortable having it like at like the 7d range. Uh jay likes it at 100.. It’S a cool feature. Uh, you have access to that in a bunch of different apps within windows – 11, even microsoft xl. So if you just feel comfortable writing you can just say: okay, we’ve got 10 of these 7 22 7..
Seven of these he struggled not wrong carl. I probably would rather type it, but you can do it with the pen if you want, but you’re right, carlos just type, it y’all just just type it, but the functionality is there. That’S that’s.
What’S important right, it’s cool now, there’s that kind of creative use, but the creative use that you know jay and i usually do with some photos and videos. We do it at this guy as well and handled it very well uh. We were actually pretty surprised to see it handle some nice 4k footage in full resolution. Uh played back pretty smoothly while it was on an external drive, so you can pretty much do just about anything. I feel like with this laptop, whether that’s you know gaming creative work, uh, you name it and it pretty much can handle it with no problem now.
That obviously depends on the specs that you get with this machine, but this one can get up to a 11th generation intel core i7 processor, uh, 32 gigs of ram up to 2 terabytes of ssd storage and an nvidia rtx 3050 ti. So you can put some real power behind this guy if you want to, and because this thing is built to fit the needs of a bunch of different people out there. I feel like that baseline model actually isn’t too bad. Considering the engineering behind this uh, the overall quality of the laptop, i think it’s a solid buy now something we didn’t talk about are the keyboard and trackpad experience.
This thing is a surface device. You guys it’s gon na have an amazing keyboard and it does have an amazing keyboard and you’ve got the precision. Haptic touch pad nice. Big touch pad very nice easy to use now battery life has actually been pretty solid on this.
For me as well, i’ve been able to pretty much go a whole day without needing to charge, of course, depending on what i’m doing. If i’m gaming, i probably try to plug it in so i can get the best out of the machine, but for the most part, battery has actually been pretty solid on this. For me, overall, i was not disappointed by the surface laptop studio. It definitely has some quirks uh. I think the air dissipating definitely feels a little bit weird grabbing it by the corners of the screen can cause it to pop up. So if you want to adjust the screen, i don’t suggest doing it from the corners.
Maybe the sound changing up when you, you know, switch the modes, but that’s not a big deal. Carl. You got any questions about this. No can i have it jay. You got any questions about it.
You guys ruined your chance. I’Ll! Never talk about this. To you guys again, i won’t answer any questions for you guys. I also inside this thing has not disappointed. Windows 11 actually runs really smoothly on it.
If you guys are interested in me, maybe talking a little bit more about windows. 11. Let me know with a comment down below: do i recommend the surface laptop studio? Absolutely, i think this thing is a solid buy. You do have to get to learn how, to you know, adjust the screen a little bit, but with time you do. This is a premium device that can handle pretty much anything that i’d want to do on a windows laptop, but that about wraps it up you guys.
Hopefully you enjoyed the video. Of course. You know we’re going to cover the surface pro as well surface pro 8..
I’Ve got some pretty cool things in mind for that video, so definitely subscribe to make sure you see that content and we’ll catch you guys in the next one till. Then it’s your average consumer peace. You guys gon na have one question. You know what i i take it i explained very well. Well, you have a question yeah, so you remember, i gave you a surface the surface book, yeah uh-huh.
Does this one get to replace it? What do you mean like i get this one and this guy? If you weren’t my cousin man, .