![]() ![]() Overall the Surface Laptop Studio was a pleasure to use as an everyday machine. The large haptic touchpad does everything such devices ought. I enjoyed the speakers and found the keyboard was not an impediment. The camera turns on quickly and handles low light well. The 2400x1600, 14.4-inch screen renders colors with pleasing precision. Those times compare favorably to the Core i9-powered ASUS machine that kicked off the Desktop Tourism adventure and reflect the fact this laptop performs very nicely – if you don't want to carry or draw on it. In an Ubuntu virtual machine under VMware Workstation Pro, again using Handbrake, the job took 12 minutes and eleven seconds. I ran my usual semi-torturous test – downscaling a five-minute 4K video to 1080p using Handbrake – and the machine did the job in 4 minutes, 29 seconds. The machine is pleasingly swift, as you'd expect from a 10nm four-core 11th-gen Intel Core i7-11370H processor that can touch 3.3GHz, plus an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU and 32GB of RAM. Microsoft's probably got the balance right by offering both – and perhaps showed up USB-C as more likely to lead to a laptop's untimely demise. ![]() I found myself appreciating that the Surface charger's magnetic coupling could one day save the laptop, but I also adore the ubiquity of USB-C charging. Thankfully both USB-C slots can accept power input, so you won't be tied to Microsoft power packs. Microsoft persists in offering its own fin-like power connector – an option I've found frustratingly easy to knock out accidentally on previous Surface devices. This article is the latest part in this series of mini-reviews. Desktop tourism? PCs and alternative devices have increasingly diversified into myriad and marvelous forms, so I've decided that in 2022 I'll use a different one each month and share the experience. ![]()
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