

I was very impressed with how thin the Laptop Studio’s 14.4-inch screen is, and it popped out of its frame without much force. Like I mentioned, its new easel-style design is similar not only to its namesake Surface Studio, but also to notebooks from Acer and HP. Let’s start with the Laptop Studio, which a Microsoft rep told me at the event will replace the Surface Book line. I was able to check out the Laptop Studio, Surface Pro X and a slew of new Surface devices at a recent (COVID-safe) demo event in New York and I have to say, these Windows 11 PCs are looking very promising. It also has a 120Hz display, as does the new Surface Pro 8, which got a sleek redesign. The Laptop Studio, meanwhile, is more like Microsoft’s Surface Studio all-in-one desktop, in that it features a pull-forward screen that can lay flat on top of a table or be propped up at a slant. It’s meant to replace the Surface Book, which was a detachable 2-in-1 laptop. But the Surface Laptop Studio is the most intriguing. Refreshes of the Surface Pro and Surface Go aren’t surprising, and the company did show off the latest in both of those series.

At its annual hardware event today, Microsoft unveiled a new family of Surface devices ahead of Windows 11’s launch on October 5th.
