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What is Microsoft Surface Studio? Price, UK release date and specifications

Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s first-ever desktop computer

Tom Gillespie

Published: 0:37, 27 Oct 2016
Updated: 16:17, 27 Oct 2016

MICROSOFT'S first desktop computer the Surface Studio is directly targeted at professional designers, and has a "zero gravity hinge" to allow its 28inch screen to fall back like a drafting table.

The style and features of the "studio" have been met with a wave of approval from tech experts - so take a below to find out all you need to know.

The Surface Studio will costs UK buyers roughly £2,500 but a release date has not yet been confirmed

What is the Microsoft Surface Studio?

This is Microsoft's first ever desktop PC and it has an elegant and simplistic folding design.

The Surface Studio has a 28-inch touchscreen mounted on two legs and a base that contains all of its processing and power components.

Its screen can be folded down to a 20-degree angle to give its users "room to be creative".

At 13mm thick, Microsoft also claim the Surface Studio's screen is the thinnest LCD computer monitor ever built.

wrote: "The Surface Studio is an incredibly clever, powerful and gorgeous all-in-one PC that, judging by its price, is clearly not for everyone. Regardless, Microsoft may very well have set the bar for all-in-one PCs like it has for 2-in-1 laptops."

Pcmag.com has weighted up the the pros and cons of the Surface Studio.

: "Attractive aluminum design with thinnest-ever LCD monitor. Super-high-resolution touch display folds for seamless transition to drawing surface. 3:2 aspect ratio benefits artistic precision. Fast processing."