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- Microsoft's Surface Studio 2 is a beautiful computer, but it's too expensive and powerful for normal computer users.
- Still, some professionals might not find it powerful enough.
- If you really like the idea of swiveling down the monitor to become flat so you can use the Microsoft Pen to draw or annotate documents, the Surface Studio 2 might be for you. But it demands a high price to try to see if you'd find this feature useful.
Of course I like the Surface Studio 2 - it's a computer that costs a minimum of $3,500.
Actually, the model I've been using costs $4,200, as it comes with 32 GB of RAM versus the 16 GB in the base model. The higher-end model also comes with a faster Nvidia GTX1070 graphics chip versus the GTX1060 in the base model.
That enormous price tag means the Surface Studio 2 has the power to deal with anything I throw at it. It's also a beautifully designed all-in-one machine, where the base harbors the computer itself. The display is also large and gloriously sharp, bright, and colorful.
Despite all the good things about the Surface Studio 2, I can't recommend it to the majority of computer users out there.
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