Surface Laptop Studio

The Surface Laptop Studio is another unusual and adaptable Windows 11 laptop from Microsoft. It may not look quite as novel as the Surface Book it replaces, but it offers almost all of the same functionality in a less complicated form.

-- As reviewed by The Guardian
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MSRP: $1,699.95

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio:3:2
  • The most powerful Surface Laptop. Quad-core powered 11th Gen Intel Core H Series processors handle your most complex workloads.
  • Design, animate, and render at top speed. Step up to the award-winning Ampere — NVIDIA's 2nd gen RTX architecture, enabling ray-traced graphics and cutting-edge AI features from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti.
  • Boundary-pushing design with sleek 14.4“ (5) touchscreen makes seamless transitions from laptop to entertainment-ready stage to portable creative canvas.
  • Pair with Surface Slim Pen 2 for the best digital pen experience yet, featuring the feeling of pen on paper(7). Magnetically attach, store, and charge under the front of the keyboard.
  • Enjoy uniform, true-to-life color and contrast on the beautiful 14.4”(5) PixelSense Flow touch display. Experience smoother scrolling with a refresh rate up to 120Hz.
  • You’re going to need Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Don’t forget to add Microsoft 365

PROS

+ great keyboard and trackpad
+ great screen with articulating modes
+ Thunderbolt 4/USB 4
+ decent battery life
+ discrete Nvidia graphics card option
+ good as a laptop or drawing deck
+ Windows Hello.

CONS

- chunky
- expensive
- no 6 or 8-core processor options
- very limited port selection
- no SD card slot
- Slim Pen 2 not included.

Expert reviews and ratings

By The Guardian on March 29, 2022
The Surface Laptop Studio is another unusual and adaptable Windows 11 laptop from Microsoft. It may not look quite as novel as the Surface Book it replaces, but it offers almost all of the same functionality in a less complicated form.
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