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Microsoft Announces Ultra-Thin, Pixel-Dense Surface Studio Touchscreen PC (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft's first Surface-branded desktop PC now exists, and it is called the Surface Studio. The PC features a 28" display with 13.5 million pixels, which means the display is roughly 63 percent denser than a "4K" screen at 3840x2160 resolution. That screen is also an astonishing 12.5mm thick. The specs we know so far: an integrated 270W PSU, 2TB "rapid" hard drive (meaning, hopefully, an SSD portion in a "hybrid" configuration, but that is not yet confirmed), 32GB RAM, a quad-core Skylake CPU, and a Windows Hello-compatible front-facing camera. In his demonstration of the device, Panos Panay, Microsoft's head of Windows hardware, held up a piece of paper to demonstrate "true scale" resolution density, so that holding that paper up to the screen would offer like-for-like comparability. He also showed off live color gamut switching, which visual designers will clearly appreciate.Update: 10/26 17:59 GMT: FastCompany has an in-depth story on Surface Studio and how it was conceived.
I actually think this sounds like a pretty nice, well spec'd out machine.... but then I saw the price tag!
$4,199 for the high-end config?
I thought everyone was throwing a huge fit about the insane pricing for Apple's Mac Pro "trashcan" workstation? Yet it's been offered since the end of 2013 in a configuration with a 3.5Ghz 6 core Xeon processor (not just a Pentium 4 desktop class CPU) and Dual FirePro AMD graphics w/3GB of VRAM per card, for $200 less than this! (Yeah, it "only" has 16GB of RAM instead of 32GB and a 256GB SSD -- but RAM is pretty inexpensive, and we don't even know for sure what type of storage makes up the 2TB in this new Microsoft Surface desktop. Pretty certain it's not just a 2TB SSD, in any case.)
Microsoft held a press conference announcing a lot of stuff today, and it's tech news.
Tomorrow, Apple is holding a press conference to announce a lot of shit, so expect to get a lot of Apple slashvertisements tomorrow.
That's just kind of a natural side effect of companies announcing a lot of things at big events - a lot of news about them is generated all at once.
Does it require the Windows 10 data harvesting to be enabled?