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So that wasn't an ad this video isn't sponsored by Microsoft
it's just a fun little skit that we decided to do but the Microsoft studio is a
huge departure from the spreadsheets and [word] processors image that Microsoft has had and even embraced in the
Past as a company whose bread and butter has pretty much always been businesses one of the most
Immediately attention-grabbing features of the Surface Studio is its aptly named
Studio mode where the display moves with
Incredible ease on the zero-Gravity hinge from a vertical position down to just 20 degrees an angle that was
Specifically chosen because it perfectly matches [a] standard drafting table in this position
It is not only stable
but it is
Optimized for natural interactions with the surface pen and the surface dial which we will check out in more detail later on for now
Let's take a moment to talk about it's Impressive 28 inch 3 by 2 aspect ratio 4500 by 3000 resolution
PixelSense display this aspect ratio will naturally give you a lot more
actual surface area than a similar widescreen monitor in the more cinematic
16 by 9 aspect ratio that has become standard on modern devices, but that's not it's only interesting feature it has
13.5 million pixels at a density of
192 ppi which may not seem earth-shattering at first
But consider this windows since the 1980s has been written for 96 DPI
meaning that at 192
You can run windows 10 at exactly
200% scaling and avoid the text dithering and visual artefacts that show up at other scaling percentages, or
with other DPI counts in windows with the surface studio at 200%
Scaling you get the great image clarity of the higher resolution
But the usability of larger icons and for those of you still printing documents
12-point font on the display is identical to 12-point font on a printed page
And if you hold up a piece of paper to the screen one inch on the paper is 1 inch on the screen just
Just like the Old days, and that's not the only thing that makes it look amazing
each and every display is color calibrated at the factory to
Guarantee color accuracy and precision which are not the same thing, by the way
it's the thinnest LCD monitor ever built at this size with color profiles of sRGB DCI P3
and
Vivid, and they even threw in 10-point multi-touch for those who after seeing it for the first time want to get the hands-on experience
Moving on to the base of the Surface Studios display
We have the entire computer actually they fit everything in here that runs the screen
And I do mean to say it that way it almost feels like there's been a role
reversal here where the computer feels like an accessory to the display, instead of the other way around to help you
Understand what I mean by [this], we'll need to take a look at the specs [our] unit comes equipped with the mobile intel core I7
6820 HQ processor and a mobile graphics card last generations, NVIdia GTX
980m along with 32 gigs of DDR
4 ram and a 2 Terabyte hybrid drives rocking 128 gigs of Solid-state storage at
$4,200
This is unsurprisingly the highest end model
But don't imagine that the base version is particularly affordable either it costs
$3,000 and drops down to a core I5
eight gigs of ram an anemic GTX 960 [5m] and hacked the storage and no
It's not user upgradeable ifixit gave it a 5 out of 10 due to its soldered Ram
CpU and gpU
And you can't buy the screen by [itself] and you can't even use the screen once the hardware becomes
Outdated by just plugging in another computer. There are no video
Inputs [just] a singular video output in the form of mini displayport on the back
Also, [the] back is an ethernet Jack a full sized Sd
card reader for type a Usb 3 [5] gigabit ports and a headphone and microphone Jack
That's it. So pretty bare-bones for a desktop computer, but [there] is
Actually a rather cool grip release [ac] power cable that won't give way to random tugs
That's what kind of interesting back to the hardware
Let's talk about performance the surface studio is using not [just] mobile technology
But last gen mobile tech from both intel and NVIdia which means that while using it is
smooth and the Vast majority of still art applications like Adobe photoshop or [Microsoft] own fresh paint and
Of course you can edit videos on it
It's limited expandability and unexceptional specs
[I] mean, it doesn't feel like a high-end video editing workstation. Which was really
disappointing to our editors here who were amped about using the dial for timeline scrubbing and other cool stuff on the surface and
Whatever it is those guys do all day and then that
Excitement was kind of lost
Microsoft's response to this criticism was that they were limited due to their design window
Making the surface studio work with these new technologies would have involved reengineering the thermal design
But I can think of other solutions
Why don't allow people to buy the screen and run their own more powerful computers like Wacom does with their cintiq line products?
Which I guess actually leads us [into] that comparison can the surface to do penetrate wacom
Stranglehold on the professional digital writing this market well it holds up
Find the screen looks great and the huge surface area is awesome, but artists including our Neighbors Steve
Who's pretty great at things have issues with the surface pen not being as accurate in terms of pressure?
when compared to offerings from the other side in the [box] you get a surface to do a surface pen a
Surface keyboard a surface mouse a
Fancy Surface Power Cord and
That's it. No surface dial
But before you go back to Microsoft in a [haasan] purchase the dial that [you] assumed was included in the box
Considering how prominently they featured it [and] like all of its advertising you might want to keep a few things in mind one
It works with all bluetooth equipped windows 10 PCs. Which is nice
It's not just a surface device
- there is a relatively simple windows wheel api for application developers to integrate its
functionality with their programs
But outside [of] developers developers developers it is not user programmable in the same way
It's something like a lodge Dekker [Razor] keyboard would be sorry [Tarin]
No, Fancy custom Macros at least not yet
And three you're probably just going to be using this thing on your desk [not] on the screen
And if you want to use it that way
You'll be constantly moving it on and off of the display that whole thing looked super cool in their video
But if you just leave it on your screen, it will ever so slowly slide downwards
Unfortunate as it almost hangs on even at relatively high Angles the dial is very cool with its
3,600 points of precision and this beautiful modern design
But it feels like it's more something that will be used because it's nice and it's easy rather than because it's useful for
hardcore professional use so in conclusion
the surface studio is one of the most interesting product releases in my opinion of
2016 hands down and I mean [that] about all aspects of the experience from just opening the box and seeing how they designed their
uniquely Elegant product [dodging] all the way to the specs of the computer itself and these truly courageous and
Unapologetically artistic screen this is a new direction for Microsoft and one that I'm excited to see them continue to explore
It's expensive but for high-end consumers
It's a very cohesive experience and as for professionals
I don't expect to see [sin] peaks in the garbage behind all the local design houses just yet
But if the circus pro is anything to go by give it a generation or two and we could be looking at a very different
landscape
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