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okay so that wasn't an ad this video isn't sponsored by Microsoft it's just a
fun little skit that we decided to do but the Microsoft Studio is a huge
departure from the spreadsheets and word processors image that Microsoft has had
and even embraced in the past as a company whose bread and butter has
pretty much always been businesses one of the most immediately attention
grabbing features of the surface studio is its aptly named Studio mode where the
display moves with Incredible Ease on the Zero Gravity hinge from a vertical
position down to just 20° an angle that
was specifically chosen because it perfectly matched is a standard drafting
table in this position it is not only stable but it is optimized for natural
interactions with the surface pen and the surface dial which we will check out
in more detail later on for now let's take a moment to talk about its
impressive 28in 3x2 aspect ratio 4500x
3000 resolution pixel sense display this
aspect ratio will naturally give you a lot more actual surface area than a
similar widescreen monitor in the more
atic 16x9 aspect ratio that has become
standard on Modern devices but that's not its only interesting feature it has
13.5 million pixels at a density of 192
PPI which may not seem Earth shattering at first but consider this Windows since
the 1980s has been written for 96 DPI
meaning that at 192 you can run Windows
10 at exactly 200% scaling and avoid the
text dithering and visual AR facts that show up at other scaling percentages or
with other DPI counts in Windows with the surface Studio at 200% scaling you
get the great image Clarity of the higher resolution but the usability of
larger icons and for those of you still printing documents 12-point font on the
display is identical to 12-point font on a printed page and if you hold up a
piece of paper to the screen 1 in on the paper is 1 in on the screen just like
the old days and that's not the only thing that makes it look amazing each
and every display is color calibrated at the factory to guarantee color accuracy
and precision which are not the same thing by the way it's the thinnest LCD
monitor ever built at this size with color profiles of srgb DCI P3 and Vivid
and they even threw in 10-point multi-touch for those who after seeing
it for the first time want to get the hands-on experience moving on to the
base of the surface studi display we have the Entire Computer actually they
fit everything in here that runs the screen and I do mean to say it that way
it almost feels like there's been a roll reversal here where the computer feels
like an accessory to the display instead of the other way around to help you
understand what I mean by this we'll need to take a look at the specs our
unit comes equipped with a mobile Intel Core i7
6820hq processor and a mobile graphics card card last generation's NVIDIA GTX
980m along with 32 gigs of ddr4 RAM and
a 2 tbte hybrid Drive rocking 128 gigs
of solid state storage at
$4200 this is unsurprisingly the highest end model but don't imagine that the
base version is particularly affordable either it cost $3,000 and drops down to
a core I 5 8 gigs of RAM an anemic GTX
965m and half the storage and no it's
not user upgradeable I fix it gave it a 5 out of 10 due to its soldered RAM CPU
and GPU and you can't buy the screen by
itself and you can't even use the screen once the hardware becomes outdated by
just plugging in another computer there are no video inputs just a singular
video output in the form of mini DisplayPort on the back also at the back is an
ether Jack a full-sized SD card reader
four type a USB 3 5 GB ports and a
headphone and microphone Jack that's it
so pretty barebones for a desktop computer but there is actually a rather
cool grip release AC power cable that won't give way to random tugs it's
actually kind of interesting back to the hardware let's talk about performance
the surface studio is using not just mobile technology but lasts gen mobile
tech from both Intel and NVIDIA which means that while using it is smooth in
the vast majority of still art applications like Adobe photosop or
Microsoft's own fresh paint and of course you can edit videos on it it's
limited expandability and unexceptional specs mean it doesn't feel like a
high-end video editing workstation which was really disappointing to our editors
here who were amped about using the dial for timeline scrubbing and other cool
stuff on the surface and whatever it is
those guys do all day and then that
excitement was kind of lost Microsoft's response to this criticism was that they
were limited due to their design window making the surface Studio work with
these new technologies would have involved re-engineering the thermal
design but I can think of other Solutions why not allow people to buy
the screen and run their own more powerful computers like Wacom does with
their cintique line of products which I guess actually leads us into that
comparison can the surface Studio penetrate wacom's strangle hold on the
professional digital writing surface Market well it holds up fine the screen
looks great and the huge surface area is awesome but artists including our
neighbor Steve who's pretty great at things have issues with the surface pen
not being as accurate in terms of pressure when compared to offerings from
the other side in the Box you get a Surface Studio a surface pen a surface
keyboard a surface Mouse a fancy surface
power cord and that's it no surface dial
but before you go back to Microsoft in a huff and purchase the dial that you
assumed was included in the Box considering how prominently they
featured it in like all of its advertising you might want to keep a few
things in mind one it works with all Bluetooth equipped Windows 10 n PCS
which is nice it's not just a surface device two there is a relatively simple
Windows wheel API for application developers to integrate its
functionality with their programs but outside of developers developers
developers it is not user programmable
in the same way that something like a Logitech or razor keyboard would be
sorry Taran no fancy custom macros at
least not yet and three you're probably
just going to be using this thing on your desk not on the screen and if you
want to use it that way you'll be constantly moving it on and off of the
display that whole thing looked super cool in their video but if you just
leave it on your screen it will ever so
slowly slide downwards uh unfortunate as
it almost hangs on even at relatively High angles the dial is very cool with
its 3600 points of precision and its beautiful modern design but it feels
like it's more something that will be used because it's nice and it's easy
rather than because it's useful for hardcore professional use so in
conclusion the surface studio is one of the most interesting product releases in
my opinion of 2016 hands down and I mean
that about all aspects of the experience from just opening the box and seeing how
they designed their uniquely elegant product packaging all the way to the
specs of the computer itself and the truly courageous and unapologetically
artistic screen this is a new direction for Microsoft and one that I'm excited
to see them continue to explore it's
expensive but for high-end consumers
it's a very cohesive experience and as for professionals I don't expect to see
cinti in the garbage behind all the local design hes just yet but if the
Surface Pro is anything to go by give it a generation or two and we could be
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people that are in the studio to stop talking I don't know if you can buy that
option but it is available
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watch this video which
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