
The IR camera is fantastic but you won't always be sitting directly in front of the Laptop Studio to use it. I also wish there was a fingerprint sensor. The frames around the Laptop Studio's 14.4-inch panel are wider than what you'll see on most premium laptops in 2021.
One design trend Microsoft frustratingly failed to adopt is thin display bezels. I'll be scouring forums and other reviews to see if others run across the same sloppy construction and will update this article if necessary. The good folks at our sister site, TechRadar, said theirs didn't have the same issue, so I'll give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt.
This lets you shift the laptop between its three modes: Laptop, Stage, and Studio.
Replacing the removable screen from the Surface Book is a unique Dynamic Woven Hinge that lets you pull the bottom of the Surface Laptop Studio's display toward you. Show the Surface Laptop Studio to friends and you'll be talking about two particular design elements for the rest of the day.
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio (512GB Silver) at Amazon for £1,489 (opens in new tab). Add in a fantastic keyboard/touchpad combo, powerful speakers, and a 1080p webcam, and the Surface Laptop Studio finds its place as one of the best laptops, one that should be considered by anyone with a large enough budget. This flexibility, along with excellent performance and long battery life, makes the Surface Laptop Studio a compelling option for creative professionals. Not only can the Surface Laptop Studio be transformed into a digital drawing board, but it does so without compromising the standard laptop mode. It means you’ll get the same premium design, three fixed modes and sizeable bezels, although none of these need urgent attention.Price: $1,599 (starting) $2,699 (as reviewed)ĭisplay: 14.4-inch, 2400 x 1600-pixel (3:2) at 120HzĪs you'll read below, the concept works really well. It means the second-gen model is likely to look very similar to the original. Both simply cite his sources, but Bowden has a strong track record for Surface news. Zac Bowden at Windows Central says “not to expect any major design updates to the external chassis”, and that there isn’t likely to be an alternative to the 14.4in screen size. However, that might be where the upgrades end. Upgrading to 13th-gen Intel processors and RTX 40 Series graphics would be a big step forward for the Surface Laptop Studio’s performance and power efficiency. The latter also appears to be available with the option for an Nvidia RTX 4060 discrete GPU (rather than Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics), which would make it Microsoft’s most powerful laptop to date. It looks like there at least two core models: one with a an Intel Core i7-13700H CPU and 16GB of RAM, and another with a Core i7-13800H and 64GB of RAM.