Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Microsoft Surface Studio review”.
For 40 years, the desktop PC has been an uninspiring box that sits to your desk. Apple’S iMac showed that desktop computers could be beautiful too, and have been some Windows machines that have gotten close. But now Microsoft is trying its own hand a desktop PC and it’s the wildly different surface to do. This, PC sits on a desk looking pretty just like an iMac, but the surface studio doesn’t just sit still. This beautiful 28 inch display transforms into a drawing board with just a push. It’S all part of the fancy hinge that, let’s display flow you can draw on it from any position or touch the display to interact with apps.
Just like you do with a tablet. In fact, it really feels like a giant tablet you can draw and it’s exactly what the surface studio is designed for. You could combine that natural drawing mode of a new accessory, the $ 99 surface dial it’s funky and it looks like a volume knob on an old-school radio.
But it’s a useful tool to use while you’re drawing there’s something really futuristic about it. But it really jumps into outerspace. When you stick it on the screen, you can tap on the top crank the dial around or tap and hold to access menus and controls. In absolute sketch Abul, the surface dial creates a radial menu.
It’S used to alter various inking controls. It feels oddly natural to use it while you’re drawing, and I found myself tweaking the brush size and colors a lot. The only disappointing part of the dial is the lack of app support.
There’S nearly 20 apps that support it right now, but the controls are really limited to just zoom functions in several of them. I’D also like to see Microsoft improve the base of the dial, so it sticks to the display better, even at the near flat angle, is slowly creep down and display on a model I was testing aside from the studio’s. Creative assets is a PC at heart. The stunning 28 inch display is truly one of the best monitors I’ve ever used, even though it’s glossy and slightly reflective, it’s just 13 millimeters thin, and it has a beyond 4k resolution that really makes what you see on the screen fill lifelike, there’s even a free By 2-bit ratio, just like the surface pro and surface book, and I love the vertical space to read articles or write documents overall, it just feels really good. When you tilt on pull the display towards you, you can see every detail in photos, documents and videos underneath the display is where all the PC components are housed.
On the model. I was testing, there’s a sixth generation quad or intel core i7 processor, 32. Gig of ram a 2 terabyte rapid hybrid drive an nvidia, gtx 980m graphics card. That’S actually a lot of old tech for such a futuristic, looking PC, it means Microsoft has opted for last year’s Intel chips, last year’s in video chips and no full solid-state disk.
Despite this, it was still very capable italic coped well with games like Gears of War, 4 or Forza horizon free you’re, not going to be able to play either on the top settings, but they’re perfectly playable on the studio. If you don’t care about maxing out all the details, having all that power at the Bates means system compromises with the surface studio, all the ports are at the rear, which means it’s hard to access them. If you have the studio placed against the wall, the PC aspects of this surface studio are exactly what you’d expect from a Windows all-in-one and is very little to fall here.
The questions I have around it are based on its price and use. Cases at starting price of $ 3,000 is up there with Wacom Cintiq, but for that extra $ 200 you’re getting a full PC and not just a monitor for creatives. That’S a tempting offer, but you’re really buying the surface judo because of its display. It’S stunning and there’s nothing quite like it on the market. Right now that has the same aspect: ratio touch and pen all are being almost pixel perfect and super thin. It’S an engineering marvel of a monitor, but I really wish Mike’s was sold it separately because I want to dock my surface book to it and if I’m investing in a desktop PC, I really want to be able to upgrade it and use it for gaming.
A more powerful work I can’t do either of those things with the surface studio that doesn’t discount what Microsoft has attempted to do here. It’S truly something unique and a hint of exciting innovation we haven’t seen for some years, but it has a small target market that will need to weigh up whether this beautiful set of floating pixels is worth the high price, probably be cooler if it wasn’t getting them Tea stains the shot too, though Max is sick. Shoddy, look at the camera.
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