Microsoft announces Surface Studio

[Becky]

Microsoft has announced a new product in the Surface line up - the Surface Studio, which features a 28" touchscreen. The PC is not portable and is not designed for mainstream users; it is aimed at mainly at people working in creative industries, but can also be used as a regular desktop PC.

Check out this short video to see what it can do:

Pre-orders of the Surface Studio will be released on 15th December 2016, and prices start at a whopping $2,999. The UK prices and release date have not yet been confirmed, but it is unlikely it will be this year. Read more about it here.

 

[EvanDavis]

Very nice. As somebody that uses an iMac, Apple have failed massively by not having touch screen. I can see a lot of designers switching from Apple to Microsoft with this

 

[EvanDavis]

LOL the song on the video is by Fiona Apple

 

[Core]

I do like the design and clearly it is intended to compete with the high-end iMac. It would be nice if they had come out with a consumer version, perhaps with 4k or something, less expensive. I am not all that impressed with the currently available and moderately priced AIO Windows desktops.

 

[TriplexDread]

Like? Yes!

Would buy? No!

 

[Becky]

I like the functionality, and I can see how they would be useful to someone working in a creative industry. Not much use to me though. It'll be nice when this kind of thing is more affordable!

 

[Core]

I am a little bit disappointed that the keyboard and mouse, which I might have considered as a separate purchase, don't seem to be anything special. Will be interesting to read reviews later on. I guess I had secretly hoped it would be a chiclet keyboard to rival the Mac keyboards, but this doesn't look like it so far...

http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-launches-new-surface-keyboards-and-mouse