All You Need To Know About Windows Surface Studio (Specs & Price)

The all-in-one PC is driven by latest-generation Intel Core processors (Core i5 or i7), backed by abundant RAM of up to 32 GB. The top-end offering is equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M smooth graphics, while the base model is fitted with a less-powerful NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M graphics card.

Surface Studio, with its strikingly large and incredibly thin 28” PixelSense™ Display, lets you visualize ideas as you paint, edit, and design. Then watch those ideas leap off the screen with 13.5 million pixels of true-to-life color and clarity.

                                          

The bulk of the Studio is a 28-inch display mounted on a pair of "zero gravity" hinges that allow it to act as a regular monitor or fold down into "Studio mode" for a writing and drawing surface. In addition to 10-point multitouch, the display allows for interaction with a Surface Pen and a new accessory called the Surface Dial -- a small metal puck that can be placed against the screen and rotated. The display runs at an ultrahigh resolution (4,500 x 3,000) and can switch between the wide DCI-P3 color gamut and the more common sRGB with the push of a button -- a useful feature allowing designers to see what their creations will look like on other devices.

                      

Inside the base is a pretty powerful PC. The $3,000 model comes with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, a 2GB GeForce GTX 965M GPU and a 1TB hybrid drive, while the high-end $4,200 model has a Core i7 CPU, 32GB of RAM, a 4GB GeForce GTX 980M graphics card and a 2TB drive. At those prices, with the incredibly high-spec display and the focus on Pen input, the Studio is clearly not meant for the average user. Microsoft says it's "designed for the creative process," pitching it as the center of your workflow. But is this what that market wants, or needs? We spoke with a number of professionals across multiple fields, from video-game design to illustration, to gauge their initial reaction and see what Microsoft needs to nail for the Studio to be a success.

                                

The hinge is designed to easily let you go from upright to flat working device without resistance, and the Surface Pen support really helps make that True Scale feature very appealing. It basically means you can write in full speed (the latency looks incredibly low) on a 1:1 8.5×11 piece of virtual paper on the screen.

Onstage, Panay also introduced and demonstrated the Surface Dial. It’s designed a new input device, in line with but different from things like mice and keyboards. Dial has global controls built-in, meaning they work throughout Windows at the system level. The Dial can work either laid out on the desk like a keyboard, or placed directly on the display, as in the image above. It’ll have different functions depending on which way you’re using it. Surface Dial also works with Surface Book, Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro 4 for off-screen functions. Other specs are below.

WINDOWS SURFACE STUDIO SPECIFICATIONS

XBox Wireless
Zero Gravity Hinge
TPM chip for enterprise security
Windows Hello face sign-in camera
Front Facing 5MP Camera with 1080p HD Video
Stereo 2.1 speakers with Dolby Audio Premium

OS: Windows 10 Pro
Processor: Intel Core i5 or Core i7 Processors (6th Generation)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX Graphics (with 2GB or 4GB GDDR5 memory)
Memory: 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB RAM
Colours: Silver
Dimension: 637.35 x 438.90 x 12.5 mm (Display)
Weight: 9.56 kg

STORAGE
Built-in Storage: 1TB or 2TB Rapid Hybrid Drive

DISPLAY & KEYBOARD
Display: 28-inch PixelSense Touch Display, 4500 x 3000 pixels (192 ppi)
Keyboard: Surface Keyboard (Wireless Keyboard)
Pointing Device: Surface Mouse (Wireless Mouse), Surface Pen

CONNECTIVITY & OTHERS
Webcam: Yes
USB 3.0: 4 Ports (One port if high power)
USB 2.0: No
Thunderbolt: No
HDMI: No
Mini DisplayPort: Yes
Ethernet (RJ-45): Yes
SD Slot: –N/A
Headphone: Yes
Dual Microphone: Yes
WLAN: Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth: Yes Bluetooth 4.0

The Surface Studio can be preordered in the United States starting at $2,999 and will start shipping in December. We have no information about pricing or availability of the Surface Studio in Nigeria, Ghana, or Kenya. If and when available, we expect Surface Studio price in Nigeria to start at around 1,100,000 Naira,