Key Specifications
- 28-inch 4500 x 3000 display
- Intel Core i7-7820HQ
- Up to Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
- Up to 32GB RAM
Microsoft Surface Studio 2 release date – when is the Surface Studio 2 available to buy?
The Microsoft Surface Studio 2 is available to buy directly from Microsoft now, or from John Lewis.
Measuring 12.5mm at the edges, the Surface Studio 2 is thinner than some laptops.
Microsoft Surface Studio 2 design and features
Like a lot of all-in-ones, the Surface Studio 2 resembles a typical PC monitor. That 28-inch touchscreen display is attached to a metal hinge which lets you fold the screen forwards, so you can use it as a digital draughting board, or prop it up so that it’s perpendicular to your desktop’s surface.
Microsoft personnel at the event weren’t able to tell us how many degrees of an arc you can move the Surface Studio 2 through; when it was pushed all the way back in ‘draughting board mode’, if you will, it looked (to my untrained eye) to be at an angle of around 30 degrees to the desktop. I didn’t have my Helix Oxford Maths Set to hand, so I’m not able to verify that.
I can confirm you can pull the Surface Studio 2’s screen all the way up so that its 90 degrees to the desk surface, or ‘standard monitor mode’ which you’ll want to do if you’re editing video, or just generally using it as a typical PC. You can even tilt it a little closer towards you, should you want to eliminate any glare from overhead office lights.
Microsoft staff told us that the actual display had been ‘optically bonded’ to the glass cover, allowing for a super-thin air gap. This was described as a ‘1.5mm pixel-to-eyeball gap’, which means if you were to put your face right up against the glass, there’d be just 1.5mm of distance between your peepers and the pixels.
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