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Microsoft has announced the Surface Studio at their event in New York City this morning.
Poised as a desktop equivalent of their Surface tablet, the company is touting the all-in-one machine as having the “world’s thinnest LCD monitor ever built,” at just 12.5mm in thinness. You can even pivot the display to be almost completely parallel to your desktop, providing a better environment to create.
The display is also a touchscreen, and it measures 28 inches in total, and boasts 13.5 million pixels, which according to Microsoft, is roughly 63 percent more than a 4K television. The display’s aspect ration is 3:2, with 192 pixels per inch.
One of the key features in the Surface Studio is the new Surface Dial, which Microsoft says is “a new tool for the creative process.” The Dial rests on your display and creates a radial, contextual menu on your display. This allows you to scroll through various options in an app.
Microsoft also said the Surface Studio has an expanded color output, which they’ve dubbed “TrueColor.” This is a wonderful feature for designers, photographers, and more. The price for the Surface Studio ranges from $2,999 to $4,199, pending your configuration.
Here are the three main configurations:
- Skylake Intel Core i5 – 8GB RAM – 2GB GPU – 1TB storage – $2,999
- Skylake Intel Core i7 – 16GB RAM – 2GB GPU – 1TB storage – $3,499
- Skylake Intel Core i7 – 32GB RAM – 4GB GPU – 2TB storage – $4,199
The specs we know of thusfar include: up to 32GB of RAM, a quad-core Skylake CPU, a 270w PSU, 4 USB 3 ports, ethernet, SD card slot, audio port, mini displayport, Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M graphics, a Windows Hello-enabled front camera, an integrated 2.1 surround speaker system, and a 2TB “rapid” harddrive (this probably has a SSD cache, and is not entirely solid state).
The Surface Studio will release on December 15th of this year, and you can pre-order it over on the Microsoft Store.
