

It features a high (120Hz) refresh rate that makes scrolling super smooth, along with any fast onscreen action, and it supports Dolby Vision, designed to make the most of HDR (high dynamic range) video. It has excellent brightness and contrast, showing lots of detail in both the dark and bright areas of our test photo, and colours were rich without being overdone, which made the photo look natural. You can't have a great laptop without a great screen, and the Surface Laptop Studio's high resolution (2400 x 1600 pixels) 14.4" touchscreen display is just that. What makes the Surface Laptop Studio special? The Dynamic Woven Hinge gives the Surface Laptop Studio three screen positions, which Microsoft calls Laptop, Stage and Studio modes. Pricing starts at $2399 for the base unit with Intel Core i5, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and Intel Iris X graphics, but our review model came in substantially more powerful and was priced accordingly at $4239 with the optional Surface Slim Pen 2. Overall, the Surface Laptop Studio is refined and a pleasure to use.

It feels solid to use and is built with premium materials and it surprised us with its outstanding audio. We found it to be a powerful and versatile laptop with good battery life and fast charging.

We tested out an upper-range model, courtesy of Microsoft, with Intel Core i7 CPU, 32GB of RAM (memory), a 1TB SSD (solid state drive), and discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti graphics. The screen doesn't detach, swivel or rotate like many 2-in-1 notebooks – instead it pulls forward to sit in front of the keyboard or even lay flat on top of it. Microsoft's Surface family expands once more with the Surface Laptop Studio, a model aimed at creative types who like to spend time with a tablet as well as a laptop.
