Not only is it powerful internally, but Surface Laptop Studio is also a strangely designed notebook. Every time I fold the screen and the fuselage and show various postures, it will attract the attention of my colleagues. Of course, it is precisely because of its diverse forms that I don't stick to one pattern when creating, sometimes it is a notebook, sometimes it is a tablet mode, and sometimes it is a touch handwriting mode. And Surface Laptop Studio also shows the industrial beauty of design. Let's take a look.
Design: Open the multi-modal office mode
In terms of the design of Surface Laptop Studio, while continuing the style of the Surface family, it feels "heavy" for the first time, especially for users who are already using thinner products. Although the weight of 1.8kg can't keep up with the game book, it is still very textured compared with many thin books. On the other hand, the thickness of the fuselage is only 18.94 mm, which is closer to ordinary thin notebooks.
Surface Laptop Studio is made of stronger magnesium-aluminum alloy, and the edge of the fuselage is designed with rounded corners. The lines of the fuselage look very scientific. The distinctive feature is the A-plane design. In addition to the Microsoft logo at the bottom, there is a dividing line in the middle. If someone hadn't demonstrated it, no one would have thought it could be folded here.
When the screen is pulled out and placed in the keyboard area, the stage mode is formed, so as to realize the docking and demonstration with customers and the task of giving priority to touch, especially when connecting an external display. No matter PS, Pr and other applications, you can touch them with your fingers. Of course, this also benefits from its unique dynamic braided hinge design.
In addition, you can completely flip the screen to make it closer to you. Whether multitasking from a perfect perspective or sketching ideas in a full-power creative studio, you can work in your own way.
In the studio mode, you can draw, write and sketch with digital strokes. When not in use, the Surface ultra-thin stylus 2 can be adsorbed or stored under the keyboard, where it can be charged and kept at hand whenever necessary.
Surface Laptop Studio Business Edition comes with 14.4-inch PixelSense? Streaming display, with a resolution of 2400× 1600 and a screen ratio of 3:2, is very suitable for office mode and can display more contents than the traditional 16:9. The screen also has a refresh rate of 120Hz, a contrast ratio of 1500: 1, and supports 10 touch, bringing unparalleled realistic display.
In the required mode, you can create your own work style through the voice input and touch gestures supported by Surface Ultra-thin stylus 2 and Windows 1 1, and you can experience it like writing on paper. In addition, Surface Laptop Studio Commercial Edition is also equipped with a facial recognition authentication camera supporting Windows Hello, with a resolution of 1080p, matrix far-field dual microphones, and Dolby Atmos? Four full-tone waves? Speaker, you can start an online video conference at any time through the team.
Surface Laptop Studio is also equipped with an excellent full-size keyboard and a new precise tactile touchpad. The long key design is very paragraph-like, and it is crisp and neat when typing. It is much easier to use than the keys on many light books, and sometimes there is even the illusion of using a mechanical keyboard. In addition, the backlight design can also be easily operated at night or in a dark environment, without "blind typing". The larger touchpad is also excellent. Although the hidden left and right key feedback is not very wise, it will not "miss the target" when clicking and manipulating. Of course, with a good touch screen, you can easily handle all kinds of operations.
The small holes on both sides of the bottom of the fuselage are actually cooling holes, which are different from the design of cooling holes at the bottom of the screen in many thin and light books. Of course, this is also caused by its multi-posture fuselage design, so when the cover is closed, the fuselage seems to be designed with three layers from the side, so the whole body will be thicker and heavier.
In terms of interface, Surface Laptop Studio Business Edition provides two computers with Thunderbolt? 4 USB 4.0 port supported by technology can be connected with two 4k monitors, each with 60Hz, and can support up to four 4k monitors, each with 30Hz. Each monitor supports daisy chain or display adapters supporting multiple monitors.
There is a Surface Connect port on the right side of the fuselage, equipped with 102W power adapter. In addition, there is a 3.5mm earphone interface, which can be used for online meetings, or to monitor stage sounds and watch audio and video. The wireless network supports fast and reliable Wi-Fi 6 and can be connected at any time.
In terms of design, although Surface Laptop Studio can show a variety of postures, its integration is quite perfect. There is no detachable fixing screw at the bottom of the fuselage except the anti-slip rubber strip. Therefore, users are not advised to open it by themselves. After all, Surface Laptop Studio is not cheap. If it is destroyed, I believe that its maintenance cost will be very expensive, or it will not be restored to its original state, and it will also make the appearance of this notebook lose its elegance.
Performance testing: a powerful tool for content creation
Our commercial version of Surface Laptop Studio is equipped with Core i7- 1 1370H processor, NVIDIA RTX A2000 laptop GPU, 32GB memory, 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, WiFi 6 wireless network, Bluetooth 5. 1 support, and Microsoft Windows/kloc-0 is pre-installed. From the configuration point of view, it is already a high-performance commercial creative notebook.
IT is worth mentioning that the new generation of Windows 1 1 professional operating system can bring more intuitive and personalized user experience in terms of productivity, teamwork, consistency and security of IT management, and help you and your team stay efficient at all times.
Before the hardware performance test, we have upgraded the system and hardware drivers to the latest version. Before each project test, it is in the best performance mode of 100% full charge and connected with the adapter (except battery life). The test results are not absolute.
cpu
Core i7- 1 1370H adopts 10 nm SuperFin process, with 4 cores and 8 threads, the basic frequency is 3.30 GHz, the highest core frequency of a single core is 4.80 GHz, and Intel Sharp Torch integrated with 1.35GHz? x？ Graphics card, 12MB three-level cache, thermal power design TDP35W, supporting DDR4 3200 and LPDDR4X 4266 memory specifications.
Using CPU-Z benchmark test, the single-core performance of i7-1370h is 628.4, and the multi-core performance is 2956.7, which is 22% higher than that of the earlier i7-7700K, and the multi-core performance 10%.
Film stand test
Using CINEBENCH test, the single-core score of R 15 is 229cb, and the multi-core score is1071CB; R20 single-core score 58 1 point, multi-core score 2608 points; ; R23 single-core score 1537pts, multi-core score 6467. This achievement is slightly higher than another sub-jacking core i7- 1 165G7 commonly used in thin and light books.
Cross-labeling productivity test
As a commercial notebook, it is often used for document editing and image processing. CrossMark is a popular performance testing platform, which gives results from three application scenarios: productivity, content creation and response speed. It can be seen that the comprehensive score of the commercial version of Surface Laptop Studio equipped with Intel Core i7- 1 1370H processor is 144 1, in which the productivity score is 1454, the creativity score is 1499, and the response is.
WebXPRT application scenario testing
WebXPRT is also a test platform focusing on application scenarios. We selected six items in WebXPRT: photo enhancement, artificial intelligence album arrangement, stock option pricing, OCR scanning, sales chart and online work, with a comprehensive score of 20 1. The results of specific projects are as follows:
display card
Our commercial version of Surface Laptop Studio is equipped with the GPU driver version R 5510U3 (511.79) of RTX A2000 laptop in NVIDIA. This GPU is mainly used for graphics processing of professional mobile workstations. Code-named GA 107, NVIDIA Ampere architecture provides similar performance to GeForce RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPU. In addition, 2560 CUDA and 128-bit memory buses are provided. At a similar power consumption level, RTX A2000 can be significantly faster than the old Quadro T2000 and T2000 Max-Q. ..
In the test of 3DMark, the comprehensive score of Time Spy is 5023, and the score of graphics card is 49 16, which is rated as very good.
In the fire test, the comprehensive score reached 10443, and the graphics card score reached 1 154 1. The system evaluation is legendary, and it can be seen that the graphics card is quite powerful.
SPECviewperf 13
SPECviewperf 13 is the most authoritative and popular comprehensive benchmark software in the field of graphics workstations. It simulates the performance of various drawing and rendering software. The test items include eight subsets, including 3D animation, CAD design, modeling and industrial design. The end result is the frame rate per second at runtime. It can be seen that most rendering tests can run smoothly.
Comprehensive performance test of PCMark 10 productivity
Another way to evaluate the application performance of products is PCMark 10, with built-in office application test, which can simulate the most commonly used office scenarios and finally give the results. Common basic functions include application startup, video conference and web browsing; Productivity includes spreadsheet and document writing; Digital content creation includes photo editing, rendering and visualization, and video editing. The comprehensive score is 546 1. In specific projects, the performance of common basic functions and productivity is quite good.
Storage performance test
In addition to powerful core hardware, the commercial version of Surface Laptop Studio we evaluated is also equipped with 32GB LPDDR4 4267MHz dual-channel memory, which is tested with AIDA64 memory. The reading speed is 59563 MB/s, the writing speed is 62365 MB/s, the copying speed is 60955 MB/s, and the delay is 97. 1ns. The overall performance is at the flagship level, so it's easy.
In terms of hard disk storage, this commercial Surface Laptop Studio is equipped with a HFS00 1TDE9X073N solid-state hard disk with a capacity of 1TB from PCIe 3.0 interface SKhynix. CrystalDiskMark test shows that the sequential reading speed of this SSD is 3542MB/s and the writing speed is 3215.97 MB/s/s.
Heat dissipation roaster
In a few days of use, in fact, most of me are only used for office work, and I can successfully complete various tasks in a very low performance mode. The most commonly used keyboard area and palm rest, under occasional performance pressure, the surface temperature is lower than or close to body temperature. Compared with many notebooks, the radiator is designed at the pivot below the screen. The cooling holes of Surface Laptop Studio are designed on the left and right sides of the bottom of the fuselage, and the surface of the fuselage is used for cooling when necessary, so in the next pressure test, I still feel that the temperature at the palm rest is obviously rising, but fortunately this is only temporary.
Single baking CPU
The office environment temperature is 25℃, the pressure test is carried out with AIDA64, and the FPU mode is selected. It runs for about 10 minute, the CPU core temperature is 9 1℃, and the power consumption is 40+W. For a thin notebook, such power consumption will obviously bring pressure to the heat dissipation design.
Single baking GPU
GPU of NVIDIA RTX A2000 notebook computer mainly plays an important role in graphics processing and rendering, which can provide powerful performance for all compute-intensive workloads. Test the GPU pressure with FurMark. It runs continuously for about 1 1 min. The GPU temperature is 68℃ and the power consumption is 49+W, which is almost 50W.
keep patience
The commercial version of Surface Laptop Studio has a built-in 56Wh battery. According to official data, the battery life of the i7 version can reach 18 hours under normal use. We use PCMark 10, 100% full power to simulate modern office application scenarios, set the system power supply to recommended mode, the screen brightness level is 60%, and wireless and Bluetooth are turned on. In the end, the remaining 3% automatically shut down, and got a battery life of 13 hours 17 minutes, which can fully meet the office needs for a whole day.
In addition, the commercial version of Surface Laptop Studio is equipped with a 102W power adapter, which charges the Surface through the Surface Connect port. Similarly, it is difficult to find a compatible adapter for this special port if it is forgotten, lost or damaged. For many products of Surface, users actually support switching to Type-C interface for charging.
Evaluation summary
There is no doubt that Surface Laptop Studio is born for business, especially professionals can use its powerful performance to develop realistic rendering, build accurate physical simulation and use AI acceleration tools to create.
Surface Laptop Studio has always maintained excellent workmanship design, including many details of design and tailoring, rotating shafts, corners and other places, which is almost impeccable industrial beauty. PixelSense？ The color display of the Flow touch screen is also perfect, with uniform realistic color and contrast. With the ultra-thin stylus of Surface, it is very suitable for content creators.
With the blessing of a new generation of Windows 1 1 system, the commercial version of Surface Laptop Studio is efficient and convenient, which can bring users a simple and intuitive operating experience. Commercial choice, Surface Laptop Studio is worth having.