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Microsoft Unveils $2,999 Surface Studio
Ahead of an Apple event Microsoft announced the Surface Studio. A 28-inch All-in-one desktop PC that mixes the popular tablet while being with a desktop for consumers. It uses a super slim 12.5mm touchscreen display, according to Microsoft the world's thinnest LCD monitor.
The 13.5 million pixels 4500x3000 resolution display (3:2) display features "TrueColor" technology aimed at filmmakers and photographers, report techtimes. The Surface Studio is equipped with a quad-core i7 processor, a NVIDIA 980M GPU, 2 TB hard drive and 32 GB of RAM.
It also has four USB 3.0 ports, with slots for a SD card, Mini DisplayPort, audio and ethernet cables. Along with its 2.1 surround sound speakers that are located in the front of the display, the PC also comes with a microphone so that the consumer can use Cortana from across the room to increase their productivity. The Surface Studio features a hinge (made up of two chrome arms that make up the base) that allows it to be folded down nearly flat with a push. It's ability to change orientation transforms it from being just another desktop PC to essentially a large tablet, as the desk turns into an art studio with the desktop becoming a virtual piece of paper or creative space.
This feature is ideal for marking up Word documents or creating 3D content with its update to the Paint app that is now being called Paint 3D. This means the touchscreen on this PC also works with the Surface Pen, but Microsoft also announced a new gadget called the Surface Dial, which is a creative tool that works on the screen of the Studio and triggers menus like screen brightness or scrolling—ideal for artists, designers, architects and the like.
| Surface USD | 2999 USD | 3499 USD | 4199 USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | Core i5 | Core i7 | Core i7 |
| RAM | 8GB | 16GB | 32GB |
| GFX | GTX965M 2GB | GTX 964M 2GB | GTX980M 4GB |
| Storage | 1TB | 1TB | 2TB |
Microsoft's Surface Studio has a retail price of $2,999 for the Skylake i5, GTX 965 M, 8 GB DDR4 and 1 TB storage version. The top model Skylake i7, GTX 980 M, 32 GB of DDR4 RAM and 2 TB storage model would cost $4199. Preorders for the new PC start today, with the computer to be released "in limited quantities" this holiday season.
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#5351275 Posted on: 10/27/2016 12:01 AM
F that for 3k I can one hell of bad ass game system and with a top line Titan X GPU from Nvidia
F that for 3k I can one hell of bad ass game system and with a top line Titan X GPU from Nvidia
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#5351294 Posted on: 10/27/2016 12:35 AM
For that price you'd think it would at least use desktop components instead of laptop components but no, this is just vastly overpriced laptop internals that have been put in a cute little box, been bolted to a 4500x3000 touchscreen and given Mac-like aesthetics. At the price they're asking you might as well build a proper desktop/tower workstation. At least then you can choose your monitor instead of having to be stuck with a 4:3 touchscreen. Seriously, who actually uses a touchscreen for serious work at a high-end workstation? Anybody? No?
For that price you'd think it would at least use desktop components instead of laptop components but no, this is just vastly overpriced laptop internals that have been put in a cute little box, been bolted to a 4500x3000 touchscreen and given Mac-like aesthetics. At the price they're asking you might as well build a proper desktop/tower workstation. At least then you can choose your monitor instead of having to be stuck with a 4:3 touchscreen. Seriously, who actually uses a touchscreen for serious work at a high-end workstation? Anybody? No?
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#5351302 Posted on: 10/27/2016 01:07 AM
The price and specs seem off because you're not the target demographic. A gamer buying this thing makes very little sense.
Specs: The 980M is compatible with every program I use in VFX/Motion Design. The entire 10-series line of chips won't be compatible with any of my CUDA-accelerated plugins/apps until early next year. The opened 1080 sitting next to my workstation can attest to this.
Price: Granted, some of that is poured into the size and design, but the display alone is quite pricey. 4.5k x 3k (3:2 aspect) is not only a one-off resolution, but supports DCI-P3 color and sounds like a dream for video content creation. The ability to have a full-size 4k preview with room for a panel or to on the side and your whole timeline/layer panel underneath? Yes please.
The other aspects of this come from the accessories. Wacom makes a 27" Pen & Touch display that costs $2800, and doesn't include the (laptop-class) PC hardware in it's base. If the pen technology is at least as good as the Surface Pro 4, this will be a steal for illustrators and designers that threw their mouse away years ago in favor of a pen tablet.
Anyways, like the 5k iMac, there is no apples-to-apples comparison to be had, but the one thing I can be sure of is this is not a gaming device.
The price and specs seem off because you're not the target demographic. A gamer buying this thing makes very little sense.
Specs: The 980M is compatible with every program I use in VFX/Motion Design. The entire 10-series line of chips won't be compatible with any of my CUDA-accelerated plugins/apps until early next year. The opened 1080 sitting next to my workstation can attest to this.
Price: Granted, some of that is poured into the size and design, but the display alone is quite pricey. 4.5k x 3k (3:2 aspect) is not only a one-off resolution, but supports DCI-P3 color and sounds like a dream for video content creation. The ability to have a full-size 4k preview with room for a panel or to on the side and your whole timeline/layer panel underneath? Yes please.
The other aspects of this come from the accessories. Wacom makes a 27" Pen & Touch display that costs $2800, and doesn't include the (laptop-class) PC hardware in it's base. If the pen technology is at least as good as the Surface Pro 4, this will be a steal for illustrators and designers that threw their mouse away years ago in favor of a pen tablet.
Anyways, like the 5k iMac, there is no apples-to-apples comparison to be had, but the one thing I can be sure of is this is not a gaming device.
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#5351306 Posted on: 10/27/2016 01:16 AM
Uh, people that draw? You know -- the market this product is clearly aimed at?
The comments in this thread are mind boggling to me. "I don't understand it, so it's overpriced and useless". The only competitor to this product is the Cintiq 27QHD Touch - it's $2700 and it's not even a computer, it's an add-on device for a computer. And yes, people actually buy them - because believe it or not, there is an entire industry of people who draw/create/develop things.
It's extremely expensive because the market is small and there is a ton of custom designed parts going into it and only it. Most of the creative professionals that are going to buy it work for companies that spend nearly double that on macs. It doesn't need a fancy graphics card, because most studios export heavy encoding/workloads to servers dedicated to processing those tasks. Photoshop like stuff can be done on an i5, let alone an i7 with a 980m in it.
Edit: It took me a while to write this post because I was eating, praze beat me to the punch.
For that price you'd think it would at least use desktop components instead of laptop components but no, this is just vastly overpriced laptop internals that have been put in a cute little box, been bolted to a 4500x3000 touchscreen and given Mac-like aesthetics. At the price they're asking you might as well build a proper desktop/tower workstation. At least then you can choose your monitor instead of having to be stuck with a 4:3 touchscreen. Seriously, who actually uses a touchscreen for serious work at a high-end workstation? Anybody? No?
Uh, people that draw? You know -- the market this product is clearly aimed at?
The comments in this thread are mind boggling to me. "I don't understand it, so it's overpriced and useless". The only competitor to this product is the Cintiq 27QHD Touch - it's $2700 and it's not even a computer, it's an add-on device for a computer. And yes, people actually buy them - because believe it or not, there is an entire industry of people who draw/create/develop things.
It's extremely expensive because the market is small and there is a ton of custom designed parts going into it and only it. Most of the creative professionals that are going to buy it work for companies that spend nearly double that on macs. It doesn't need a fancy graphics card, because most studios export heavy encoding/workloads to servers dedicated to processing those tasks. Photoshop like stuff can be done on an i5, let alone an i7 with a 980m in it.
Edit: It took me a while to write this post because I was eating, praze beat me to the punch.
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Why on Earth 980M???
Of course margins will be a couple of dollars smaller, but 1080 makes way much more sense.
For $3000 you get a sub $800 PC. Nothing about this makes sense. MS trying to be Apple. I still remember walking into a Windows store for the first time and just laughing at how much they ripped off Apple stores. Just no originality what so ever.