If you buy a Surface Slim Pen 2 stylus, it can magnetically attach to the front side of this lip, allowing you to stash the stylus away when not in use. Its magnesium and aluminum casing comes in one color, Platinum, and there’s a small lower lip running around the base of the whole laptop, making it appear to sort of float slightly above the table. The Surface Laptop Studio is a relatively compact but weighty laptop, measuring 12.7 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches and weighing 3.8 (Core i5 models) to 4 pounds (Core i7 models). MacBook Pro-like design - and a good one.Hinged sliding display feels sturdy and works well, once you get the hang of it.Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio review: Design Take a look at our Microsoft promo codes page for the latest offers and discounts. All told, you’d pay a bit more than $2,900 to buy the same bundle for yourself. It also came packaged with the aforementioned Surface Slim Pen 2 and a $25 Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse, which is a cheap, decent Bluetooth mouse.

Our review unit arrived sporting the Core i7 CPU, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and the Nvidia discrete GPU. The one you should really consider investing in is the Surface Slim Pen 2, a $129 stylus that you charge by magnetically attaching it to the Surface Laptop Studio. Microsoft also offers a number of optional accessories you can bundle in with your purchase, from Bluetooth headphones and mice to USB hubs.

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