Many praised the large high resolution display, with Tom Warren of The Verge calling it 'truly one of the best desktop monitors I’ve ever used'. The Surface Studio received generally positive reviews from technology critics. Developers can utilize its APIs to integrate its functionality into their own products. The latter consists of a round disk that can be placed on the display and rotated to perform various actions, such as scrolling, zooming, adjusting the volume, among others, with precision. It is also compatible with the Surface Pen and a newly created accessory, the Surface Dial. Microsoft specially designed its Surface Mouse and Surface Keyboard to work with the Surface Studio. A firmware update was released in April 2017 that enabled Cortana to be summoned via a 'Hey, Cortana' voice command from sleep, provided the Studio is running the Creators Update. Unlike many desktop PCs, the Surface Studio supports Microsoft's Modern Standby (formerly known as InstantGo) specification, enabling background tasks to operate while the computer is sleeping. It also features four USB 3.0 ports, a Mini DisplayPort, an SDXC card reader and a headset connection. The system can be configured with up to 32 GB of DDR4 RAM and a 2 terabyte hard drive.

Its compact design contains a 6th generation (codename ' Skylake') Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor and either a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M or GeForce GTX 980M graphics processor (both dependent on configuration). The bezel of the display contains a 5.0 megapixel camera and a Windows Hello-compatible backlit infrared camera. The screen, the thinnest ever built for an all-in-one PC at 12.5 millimetres thick, is capable of being used in both the DCI-P3 and sRGB color spaces, and features a unique hinge design that allows it be tilted to a flat position, in a manner similar to the Wacom Cintiq. The Surface Studio has a 28-inch 4.5K ' PixelSense' display with 4500 x 3000 pixels, equivalent to 192 dpi. Keyboard, touchpad mouse, Surface Pen, Surface Dial, sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, ambient lightĨ02.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, four USB 3.0 ports, Mini DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet Stereo speakers, dual microphones, headset jack Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory (only available on Intel Core i7 with 32 GB RAM model) Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory Surface Studio in desktop mode with Surface Keyboard and Surface MouseĪtmel ATSAMS70N21 32-bit ARM Cortex-M7 processor to power PixelSense display Ģ8 inches (71 cm) 4500x3000 (192 ppi) PixelSense display with 3:2 aspect ratio with 10-point multi-touch and pen support

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