Outdated hardware in the base, which in no way should be attached to the monitor. Let us connect our powerful workstations instead, make the Studio a monitor only. Why be forced to upgrade the monitor when the computer hardware isn't up to the task anymore? Planned obsolescence, that's why. That little glued together mobile class computer will burn when you throw a simple rendering at it. Besides, the only way I dear run Microsoft's beta spyware cloud OS "Windows 10" is within a virtual machine on Linux anyway. Look up GPU passthrough if you want to get serious.
The Surface Studio is a "halo product" meant to attract the creatives to Microsoft's products, but in itself isn't a very good solution for professionals who care about owning and maintaining their equipment, and want value for money by using it over a long period of time. Who wants a computer that unexpectedly reboots itself to install the latest software update issued by its masters when you're in the middle of important work? Corporations are wrestling what little control we have out of our hands, the war on general computing is here, and Stallman was right all along. Show them you won't accept these methods by not throwing money at ill-conceived products like this.
The marketing is effective, I'll give them that. I want that screen. A better digitiser wouldn't hurt, we're used to having tilt for example. The screen is also very glossy, which looks good and all, but it will reflect the hell out of the room you're using it in. The Surface Dial might be useful, but it depends entirely on software support which you might not see much of outside of some gimmicky apps. Just rip that gimped computer out of the base, give us open source linux drivers, and I'll consider it. Yeah, I'll probably be waiting a while.
Outdated hardware in the base, which in no way should be attached to the monitor. Let us connect our powerful workstations instead, make the Studio a monitor only. Why be forced to upgrade the monitor when the computer hardware isn't up to the task anymore? Planned obsolescence, that's why. That little glued together mobile class computer will burn when you throw a simple rendering at it. Besides, the only way I dear run Microsoft's beta spyware cloud OS "Windows 10" is within a virtual machine on Linux anyway. Look up GPU passthrough if you want to get serious.
The Surface Studio is a "halo product" meant to attract the creatives to Microsoft's products, but in itself isn't a very good solution for professionals who care about owning and maintaining their equipment, and want value for money by using it over a long period of time. Who wants a computer that unexpectedly reboots itself to install the latest software update issued by its masters when you're in the middle of important work? Corporations are wrestling what little control we have out of our hands, the war on general computing is here, and Stallman was right all along. Show them you won't accept these methods by not throwing money at ill-conceived products like this.
The marketing is effective, I'll give them that. I want that screen. A better digitiser wouldn't hurt, we're used to having tilt for example. The screen is also very glossy, which looks good and all, but it will reflect the hell out of the room you're using it in. The Surface Dial might be useful, but it depends entirely on software support which you might not see much of outside of some gimmicky apps. Just rip that gimped computer out of the base, give us open source linux drivers, and I'll consider it. Yeah, I'll probably be waiting a while.