The same goes for a presentation position, with the screen facing outward, and Microsoft hasn't even mentioned the outward-facing-screen. You can sort of raise the screen above the keyboard or increase the screen angle, but the way the screen is weighted and the abundance of really strong magnets all over the body make the positions unstable. There also aren't any in-between positions. The laptop has a place to magnetically dock and charge the Slim Pen 2. As good as Windows' handwriting recognition is, both that and the onscreen keyboard don't cut it for me when, say, doing a quick search for files in explorer. Plus, to minimize accidental touch operations, the screen bezels are really wide, giving it a dated appearance.Įven the ability to just leave it perched horizontally above the keyboard for some quick typing would help. Those designs are also easier to maneuver single-handed. Overall, I like the display positioning better than a typical two-in-one it feels a lot less awkward to pull it down - even though it does require two hands - than to rotate the screen all the way around to put it in tablet mode, which I can never seem to do gracefully.īut despite the clever hinge design, I really miss the ability to position it at *any* angle like you can with some other competitors' articulated displays, such as the Acer Concept D Ezel models: specifically, the ability to let it hover over the keyboard so you can still get to the keyboard, or to be able to change the angle. The Laptop Studio has a lot in common with its old, old big brother, the Surface Studio, from the repositional pen-tablet-optimized screen to its somewhat underpowered insides. The US entry price converts to about £1,170 or AU$2,200. It won't be available in the UK or Australia until 2022, and no prices have been announced yet for those regions. Surface Pro 8: A familiar companion for Windows 11.Add another $130 for the Surface Slim Pen 2 the laptop will work with any Microsoft Pen Protocol-compatible stylus, though. Upping to 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD brings the price to $2,700 - that's the configuration we tested - and with a 2TB SSD, it's $3,100. Beyond that, you jump to a Core i7-11370H with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. Prices for the Surface Laptop Studio start at $1,600 with a Core i5-11300H, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD and integrated graphics. Fat screen bezels make the display look dated.Proprietary Surface Connect power adapter has a too-short cable.

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