Microsoft's updated Surface Laptop Studio 2 boasts better specs and performance, but it isn't the update we've waited nearly two years for.
Surface Laptop Studio 2 MSRP $3,300.00 Score Details “Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio 2 is a spec upgrade that isn't worth the extra cash.” Pros Cons It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2 is faster. New hardware brings higher performance, and that’s exactly what Microsoft’s latest offers.
The bump in RAM is problematic, though. More is better if you need it, but it’s how Microsoft splits up its configurations that makes the 64GB of RAM such a hassle. In order to get a Surface Laptop Studio 2 with an RTX 4060, you need to buy a configuration with at least 1TB of storage and 64GB of RAM. That means you’re paying at least $3,300 and as much as $3,700, even if you don’t need all of that RAM or storage.
Pricing isn’t out of sorts compared to the 14-inch MacBook Pro, with the Surface Laptop Studio 2 arriving slightly cheaper depending on your configuration. However, it’s much higher than competing Windows laptops like the Dell XPS 15. For the same price as the cheapest RTX 4060 configuration of the Surface Laptop Studio 2, you can get a Dell XPS 15 with an Intel Core i9-13900H, RTX 4070, 64GB of memory, 2TB of storage, and a 3.5K OLED touch display.
There’s a premium experience to using the Surface Laptop Studio 2 that other Windows machines just can’t match, no matter how much more powerful or cheaper they are. For instance, the rounded corners of Windows 11 are matched perfectly with the rounded corners of the PixelSense Flow display. The entire outer shell looks identical to the original model’s, in fact, short of a few extra ports. The aluminum body looks and feels incredible, and I still loving the stairstepping between the different layers, which makes the laptop look like a condensed stack of books. It looks great, but the Surface Laptop Studio 2 adds a tenth-of-an-inch to the thickness of the previous model, as well as nearly half a pound of weight.
That’s all the same, but Microsoft made improvements to brightness and HDR. The screen is now certified with VESA’s DisplayHDR 400, mostly due to higher peak brightness. I measured 531 nits of peak brightness with a contrast ratio of 1,650:1, which is great. However, it still falls short of the Lenovo Slim Pro 9i with its mini-LED display.
If it ain’t broke As mentioned, Microsoft says the Surface Laptop Studio 2 has the “most inclusive trackpad ever,” and that’s largely due to the new Adaptive Touch feature. It disables gestures, but it’s a huge step for accessibility on laptops. That’s just about the only purpose for this chip right now, though. We could see more in the future, but the AI accelerator really isn’t a reason to buy the Surface Laptop Studio 2 right now. After all, the machine includes an Nvidia GPU that has access to Nvidia Broadcast, which offers similar effects that are accelerated by AI.
The power modes of the Surface Laptop Studio have a massive impact on performance. Switching to the Best Performance mode, you can see the Surface Laptop Studio 2 match the single-core and multi-core performance of the XPS 15 in Cinebench. Similarly, it falls short of the MacBook Pro’s massive core array in the multi-core test, but it takes a clear lead in the single-core test.
Moving on to graphics performance, I ran 3DMark Time Spy and Fire Strike to get a general sense of gaming performance. This isn’t a gaming laptop, but it certainly can run games thanks to a discrete Nvidia GPU and access to features like Deep Learning Super Sampling 3 .
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