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At Microsoft's Windows 10 event last night, not only did the company unveil its plans to roll out a bunch of affordable Virtual Reality headsets, but it also announced the long-rumoured Surface all-in-one PC. It is called the Surface Studio and it features the “world's thinnest LCD monitor ever built”, alongside Nvidia graphics and an Intel processor.
The Surface Studio's 28-inch display runs at a 4500×3000 resolution at a 3:2 aspect ratio, which is fairly unusual. It also comes with different colour modes, namely DCI-P3 and sRGB for video or photo work. Another big feature of the Surface Studio is something called ‘True Scale', which is supposed to make it so that “one inch on the display is one inch in real life”.
Under the hood, this all-in-one does pack quite a bit of power, with an Intel CPU, an Nvidia GTX 980m, 32GB of DDR4 RAM and a 2TB PCIe SSD. For connections, you get quite a few options including SD Card support, Ethernet, mini DisplayPort, and four USB 3.0 ports.
As you can tell from the name, this PC is intended for productivity and creative work. This isn't for the gamers out there, but it could be an attractive option for video editors, graphic designers or professional photographers. It comes at a price, though, with the first units expected to ship in mid-December for $2999 in the US.
KitGuru Says: The Surface Studio certainly wins some style points with its stand and high-resolution display. It packs quite a bit of power inside too considering the confined space. What do you guys think of Microsoft's latest system?
It seems very competitive with iMac, both in power and design. I’ll be interested to see how this develops; Apple has dominated the market for design PCs for a long time, and I know a lot of loyal Apple consumers will be hesitant to make the switch, but this could be a step for more competition in this area of the PC market. Windows has become a great OS, and I actually prefer it over iOS nowadays.
It was hard, by I made the switch, or to be more precise, I will stop my current switch to Apple.
I was in windows since my first pc back in 1997 and as a graphic designer I was trying to move completely in mac since then. I finally managed to get my first macbook in 2009 and I was ready to jump to an iMac for my next desktop, but then apple started focusing on their iPhones and OSX didn;t got any serious updates and on the hardware side it was just like “same old just thinner”, while at the same time I got windows 10 on my desktop and it felt really refreshing and not that confusing like windows 8, and also for the first time in the history of windows everything felt running nice and the system worked for me and not against me.
I guess the surface desktop was the final hit, I will probably get one to replace at least one of the systems in my office next year.
why would they use outdated gpu the gtx 1080 is out and the kaby lake for notebook is out why would they use outdated cpu and video then overcharge for it i can see if its the newest it is not its outdated