![]() ![]() And if you’re not - maybe you’re an aspiring artist - this machine will last for a while so long as you’re not expecting to play the latest games on the highest settings. If you’re the type of creative professional who illustrates for a living, the Surface Studio 2+ - even with its six-year-old design - will pay for itself in no time. A Mac Studio with the beefier M1 Ultra chip would cost $3,999 with a Studio Display that balloons to $5,598. ![]() If you were to add in Apple’s Studio display, which starts at $1,599, Mac Studio set would run $3,589. Sure, a Mac Studio starts at $1,999 for the M1 Pro version, but it doesn’t come with a display, let alone a 28-inch touchscreen that angles down into a drafting table-like angle. But consider what you’re getting and who Microsoft is selling the Surface Studio 2+ to: creative professionals. Who is the Surface Studio 2+ for? - One look at these prices and your jaw will likely drop. If you need these accessories, they’ll cost an extra $200 for a total of $4,499.99. Price and release date - The Surface Studio 2+ comes out on October 25 for $4,299.99 sans Surface Pen, keyboard, and mouse. But the removal of the SDXC reader is somewhat baffling when even Apple, famous for removing useful ports, included one - prominently on the front - in the Mac Studio. If you need an SDXC card reader, you can buy an inexpensive adapter or a multi-port dongle. On the Surface Studio 2+, Microsoft’s removed the SDXC card slot - a major loss for creatives such as photographers and video editors in my opinion - and replaced it with four USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports and two faster USB-A 3.1 ports. ![]() Hello Thunderbolt 4, goodbye SDXC slot - The old Surface Studio 2 had four USB-A 3.0 ports, 1x USB-C, and 1x SDXC card reader. Ports: 3x USB-C with Thunderbolt 4, 2x USB-A 3.1, headphone jack, Ethernet port.Audio: Dual far-field Studio mics Stereo 2.1 speakers with Dolby Atmos.GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 laptop GPU with 6GB GDDR6 RAM.Aspect ratio and resolution: 3:2 4,500 x 3,000.Display: 28-inch PixelSense touchscreen with 10-point multi-touch.The Surface Studio 2+ looks virtually identical to the original Surface Studio and Studio 2, but that’s only because Microsoft nailed the design in 2016. Notably, there’s only one configuration now for CPU, GPU, RAM, and storage. Microsoft says the Studio 2+’s CPU is “up to 50 percent faster” than the Studio 2 and “5x more powerful” than the original Studio GPU performance is “double” compared to the Studio 2. Microsoft has improved the performance of the Surface Studio 2+ with an 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11370 CPU and Nvidia GTX 3060 laptop graphics, but these specs are a far cry from the bleeding edge. At its release in 2018, these specs immediately made the Studio 2 unable to play the latest PC games and lacked the performance to prevent the machine from bottlenecking quickly for power-hungry apps. More power inside - The biggest knock on the Surface Studio 2 was its seventh-generation Intel CPU and underpowered Nvidia GTX 10 GPUs. The sleek computer’s adjustable 28-inch touchscreen remains unchanged and so does the overall design, but essential components such as the CPU, GPU, and ports have been refreshed. sort of.Īt its fall Surface event on Thursday, the tech giant announced the Surface Studio 2+ - not the Studio 3 that everyone was hoping for - alongside the Surface Pro 9 and Surface Laptop 5. After four years, Microsoft is finally updating its all-in-one Surface Studio desktop computer. ![]()
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