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Microsoft Surface Studio is here to grind a halt in Apple’s iMac sales

Microsoft Surface Studio

To challenge the iMac, which is expected arrive next year, Microsoft has announced its Surface Studio, the company’s first solution as an all-in-one. The company states that its Surface Studio has not only been designed for professionals, but for those with a creative mind, as it states the following:

“Surface Studio is an entirely new device designed for the creative process. Its roomy and adjustable 28-inch PixelSense Display provides a huge canvas for all kinds of work. Position it upright to sketch, paint, and edit photos, or lay it flat to draw on it like a drafting table. With Surface Studio, the possibilities are limitless.”

Its hinge allows you to place the touch-enabled display lie down near flat like a notebook and the Surface Pen that comes with Surface Studio allows you to interact with the touchscreen of the 28-inch display. Microsoft has also managed to go past the 4K display limit, because Surface Studio features a 4.5K PixelSense display with a 4500 x 3000 resolution. According to Microsoft, you have a total of 13.5 million pixels that add to the existing image quality. At the rear side, you have a bunch of connectivity options, and they are as follows:

https://youtu.be/BzMLA8YIgG0

Surface Studio also comes with a 5MP front-facing camera, and while the machine is up for pre-order, there are several models to choose from. Surface Studio starts at $2,999 and gives you a quad-core Skylake i5 processor, along with 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GTX GPU. Instead of a solid state drive, what you get in the Surface Studio is a Rapid hybrid drive. A Rapid hybrid drive is more like an SSD hybrid drive, which is an amalgamation of an SSD + traditional spinning hard drive.

If you’re looking for the AIO to be officially released, it will be available in November.