Microsoft Unveils Surface Studio 2, Cortana-Powered Surface Headphones

Microsoft also announced the new Surface Studio 2, aimed at creative professionals,which has a refreshed pattern, along with upgraded internals. The company also unveiled the all-new Surface Headphones Bluetooth headset, which is the first Microsoft-branded audio accompaniment in the Surface family unit.

`Surface Studio 2

The Surface Studio 2 is billed every bit the 'nearly powerful Surface ever'. Despite that name, information technology doesn't get the latest Intel Core i9 processors, but is powered by the Intel Cadre i7 7820HQ processor with four cores and 8 threads.

You can configure it with either 16 or 32 GB of RAM, and with either a GTX 1060 or GTX 1070 GPU. The superlative-end SKU with 2TB of storage, and 32GB of RAM with the GTX 1070 will run you lot $iv,799.

Of course the dominating characteristic of the Surface Studio 2 is the massive 28-inch display. The panel is called a PixelSense Display and has a 4500 x 3000 pixels resolution with (192 PPI. Just similar the Surface notebooks, it has a 3:ii attribute ratio, and then if you are already using ane, you should non take any issues adjusting to the taller attribute ratio.

The base of the Surface Studio, which holds the swivel for the swiveling display, besides has enough of ports. You get a four full-sized USB 3.0 ports with 1 that tin charge devices even in standby mode. Information technology has a full-size SD card reader compatible, a USB Type-C port, which is missing in the Surface Laptop 2, a headphone jack and a Gigabit Ethernet port.

The Studio 2 is as well uniform with the Surface Dial, which lets yous tweak settings and various elements when using a pen on the brandish. You will go a Surface Pen in the box, along with the Surface Keyboard and Mouse.

Surface Headphones

Microsoft says the new headphones "complete the Surface experience", which may exist a fleck besides outlandish, merely the headphones to match the overall aesthetic of the Surface lineup. The variant existence shown around past Microsoft has a matte grey exterior with rounded corners, a circular master speaker unit and an over-ear course factor. The ear cups feature a soft foam material and are said to be calorie-free and breathable.

In terms of specs, the Surface Headphones accept 40mm free-edge speaker drivers, and support for Swift Pair, which lets you connect instantly to Windows PC. Microsoft also promises upward to 15 hours of battery life and USB Blazon-C fast charging for ane hour of playback with 10 minutes of charging. The headphones can become fully charged upwards in 2 hours, Microsoft claims, which is pretty good. For noise counterfoil, Microsoft claims upwards to 30 dB for agile NC and upwards to twoscore dB for passive noise cancellation.

The round main unit likewise has a bear on-sensitive pad which lets you adjust the noise counterfoil result, control volume and playback and your interactions with Cortana. You tin can too use voice to adjust book and command playback. The Surface Headphones tin bring upwardly Cortana to help yous perform tasks such every bit playing music, web searches and starting Skype calls. You can likewise get Cortana to give y'all alerts on the headphones.