Surface Studio Field Experience evaluation

October 26, is surface global listing four anniversary day, Microsoft chooses this day to convene surface new product launch, both pays homage, also has the inheritance. Today, Microsoft in New York released a new all-in-one surface Studio, a new generation of surface book, as well as the newly manipulated Accessories surface Dial series products.

Fifth generation Surface Pro did not appear, the new Surface Book upgrade mainly in the processor, graphics and battery, so the first one of the surface family studio has become the biggest focus of the event. Sina Technology reporter in the United States after the launch of the scene experienced this 28-inch giant screen one machine.

First look at the technical specifications of surface Studio: 28-inch Pixelsense display, support 10-point touch, resolution 4500x3000, such as Sobi with the size of the 4K TV also higher 63%, the screen ratio or surface 3:2, pixel density 192PPI. With the Intel Sixth Daicouri i5 or i7 processor, the graphics processor is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 2GB Edition or GTX 980M 4GB Edition. Memory 8GB up, hard drive 1TB up.

According to Sina technology in the scene, studio has a similar surface book texture of the metal frame, but the aluminum alloy material, and keyboard, mouse, stylus and new control equipment surface dial also maintain the same hue, showing a cool silver gray.

Microsoft Surface Studio All-in-one Machine

In the hardware configuration, Surface Studio is undoubtedly the current one high configuration of the list. But that's not the biggest selling point of studio. This 28-inch machine's side screen thickness is only 12.5 mm, which is currently the thinnest record of the machine.

However, strictly speaking, Surface studio is actually a combination of host and screen. The screen is extremely thin because Microsoft cleverly hides the main hardware in a thin base (32.2 millimeters). The thick base provides a solid foundation for studio's various screen-angle adjustments.

Studio's four USB 3.0 connectors, a mini display interface, and SD card slots are all set at the back of the base. Although the front looks like, studio has almost no openings, but the actual use of the time will be inconvenient, when the plug may need to move the studio forward a little.

Studio machine weight is 9.56 kg, not lightweight, but the weight of the machine is not a key factor. The most dense part is obviously the base, but this design makes the surface screen adjustment very solid, no top-heavy feeling of shaking.

Thanks to the hinged design of the back, studio's 28-inch screen can be pushed directly onto the desktop, with a minimum of 20-degree tilt, which can be stepless adjusted. Sina technology in the scene to tear down the studio many times, found that the screen adjustment process is very smooth, there is no shaking unstable feeling.

This is very tempting in the process of manipulation, and users can work almost on the big screen of studio. And thanks to the pixel density of up to 192PPI display, in the processing of high-definition images, almost every detail can be magnified to make very detailed editing.

Studio's stylus can be directly adsorbed on the left and right sides of the screen, split keyboard and mouse to maintain a good feel and coating, the key process reasonable comfort. Microsoft has also introduced an auxiliary control device Dail, with surface pen can complete a variety of precision control.

Microsoft has released a new control device for studio dial, a small elliptical device with a stylus that allows users to completely throw away the mouse and perform very accurate screen processing. Dial can be selected by the rotation of different types of operations, through the next press to confirm. But the device, like an Apple ipad Pro stylus, is built for professional graphics, video and design software.

Sina technology in the scene interviewed a Microsoft invited to the photographer. He told Sina technology that he was engaged in commercial photography, with a size of up to dozens of m per picture and a variety of very fine PS adjustments. After using studio, he felt that the huge screen was put down, the experience with the stylus was very efficient, and studio's image processing capacity was sufficient to meet the needs of his commercial photographer.

Studio has a face recognition camera with Windows Hello, with a 5 million-pixel front camera that can be used for high-definition video conversations. (Desktops are not notebooks, and they don't need a back-facing camera.) Studio also has a Dolby sound double microphone that is good enough for entertainment when it comes to watching movies and listening to music.

Surface Studio is open today, December 15, the lowest configuration (Core i5 processor, 8GB memory, 2GB graphics, 1TB hard drive) The price is 2999 dollars. The medium configuration (i7 processor, 16GB memory, 2GB video card, and 1TB hard drive) is priced at 3499 dollars. The Ding (i7 processor, 32GB memory, 4GB video card and 2TB hard drive) is priced at $4199. The surface stylus is standard.