![]() If that’s you, Razer wants to win you over too, of course, and both companies dole out considerable sums for product placement in content you’re likely to consume, from Surfaces in Marvel’s WandaVision to the Razer logo plastered on seemingly every electronic device in Apple TV’s Mythic Quest. It’s the latter-an outstanding laptop in its own right-that is perhaps the chief competition for the Surface Laptop Studio as it seeks to win the hearts and wallets of its target market: people who consider themselves coders, gamers, and digital artists (and participants in many other creative fields of the 21st century) simultaneously. Like the ConceptD 3 Ezel, the Surface Laptop Studio has a 14-inch screen, a new sweet spot toward which more and more laptops are gravitating, whether they’re ultra thin biz machines like the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon or powerful gaming rigs like the Razer Blade 14. ![]() What makes the Studio version different is that its screen can be pulled forward to create an easel, or pulled even further forward to lay flat on your desk as a digital canvas on which to spill your thoughts or draw your masterpiece with a digital pen. ![]() clamshell) laptop with a touchscreen, the aptly named Surface Laptop. Yes, Microsoft already offers a non-detachable (a.k.a. Unlike the Book 3, which is a tablet that can detach from its included keyboard base, the Laptop Studio is a non-detachable laptop. Like the Book 3, the Laptop Studio has a convertible touchscreen. The Surface Laptop Studio was conceived as a successor to the Surface Book 3, another innovative device for creative professionals that Microsoft will continue to sell for the time being. It’s not particularly powerful, and it's pricey, but it's still impressive. ![]() It advances the state of the art of mobile computing for creative pros in a big way, with a haptic touchpad and a 120Hz screen that pulls forward so you can lay it completely flat on top of the keyboard. In either case, your laptop of choice might have once been a Razer or an Alienware, but now there’s a new kid on the block: the 14-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio (starts at A$2,399 $3,300 as tested). Or maybe you game and code simultaneously by night, and by day you’re asleep. Perhaps you’re a software developer by day and a gamer by night.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |