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So this is the Surface Laptop Studio 2.

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Microsoft says it's the most powerful
surface system that they've ever made and

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it combines a lot of aspects
from different surface products.

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There's a little bit of
the Surface Pro in here,

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a little bit of the Surface book,
a little bit of the Surface Studio,

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which was an all in one desktop,
and I'll show you how it works.

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It looks like an ordinary
clamshell laptop,

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but the screen is actually hinged
horizontally across the middle right

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here. You can tilt it up like
this, you bring it forward,

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and the screen then sits in front of the
keyboard just leaving you the track pad

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and a screen. And that's a great kind
of like a kiosk mode I would call it.

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If you're watching a video,
if you're playing a game,

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it's really an interesting way to interact
with a computer. It's not the first

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time I've ever seen this design,

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but it's not a very common
design for a hybrid two in one.

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Then you can go even further and you can
take the screen and fold it all the way

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down,

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and then you've got a big kind
of chunky tablet and you see it

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doesn't sit entirely flat. It's
raised up a little bit in the back.

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That's because of that
hinge design right there.

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And this is a pretty hefty system.

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I dunno if I'd feel comfortable just
walking around all day with this like a

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tablet, maybe writing on it with
a stylus or something like that.

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But I like that you can go from clamshell
mode to tablet mode to this kind of

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in-between mode.

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This has got a 13th generation intel
core I seven that makes it the most

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advanced surface you can get right now.
You can actually get up to 64 gigs of

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RAM in this, and graphics wise,

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you can get an Nvidia
40 - 50 or 40 - 60 in.

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This drives the price up
a lot. I've got the 40,

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60 and the 64 gigs of RAM in
here. So this is more than $3,000,

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but that means that besides being a good
machine for creators and video editors

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and Photoshop editors, it's actually
also a pretty decent gaming rig.

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It's not as fancy as a dedicated
gaming laptop with a 40 80 or 40 90

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GPU, but with the 40 60,

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you can play just about any new
game at decent detail settings,

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at decent resolution settings.

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So this system pairs well with
Microsoft Slim Surface Pen,

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which is a stylus you can buy separately
and it's got a lot of cooling built in.

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You can see it's got this big
ridge right here underneath,

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and that's where a lot of the fan vents
are. So it's actually thicker than it

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looks like. It's a pretty
hefty system, but it is, again,

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the most powerful service
you can buy starts at $1999,

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goes up past $3,000 depending on the
configuration options that you choose.

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At the other end of the scales,
the Surface laptop Go 3.

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This is the third generation of
this budget laptop from Microsoft.

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The first generation that I reviewed
back in 2020 started at $550.

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The second generation I
think was 2022. It was $600.

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Now we're up to $800 to start, which
makes this not quite a budget laptop,

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but that's inflation for you. It
looks and feels very much the same.

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It's an aluminum body. It's
actually for a budget laptop,

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a very nice solid feeling metal
laptop. I think the keyboard is great.

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The touch pad is about as good as you'd
get on a more expensive window system,

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and it's got an 11 gen core i5 in it.
Configuration options,

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you can change the color a
little bit. This is sage.

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We're supposed to look kind of greenish,

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and you can also get either
eight or 16 gigs of ram.

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All the configurations right now
at least come with a 2 56 gig SSID.

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So that's some storage. It's not a
ton of storage, but it's some storage.

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However, that more expensive
configuration, that's $999,

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and for $999 you can get a
slightly older M1 MacBook Air,

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so you're kind of already
out of budget territory.

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You got to get that complicated math of
building the perfect budget laptop in

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there. So while I like the overall
design, I like the keyboard,

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I think you get a decently powerful system
for the price. There are a few things

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that bugged me about this, especially
because they've raised the price.

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Number one is you don't
get a backlit keyboard,

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and with these kind of gray keys
on this kind of dark greenish body,

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I think it's very easy for the keys to
get lost. If you're in dim lighting,

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the screen, it's a 12.4 inch screen.
It's not quite full HD resolution.

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It's close. But again,

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I think on any laptop you should expect
at least full HD resolution on the

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screen. It is a three
by two screen, however,

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so you get a little bit
more of that height on it,

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which is good for reading documents.

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I also don't like that the
webcam is a seven 20 webcam.

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Those are all but extinct,

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especially during covid when we all
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together all the time.

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Almost everyone traded up to a
regular HD webcam in their systems.

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This is a low resolution
webcam, not nearly as good.

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You could really benefit from getting
a better webcam in a system like this.

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I do like however,

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that it's got Microsoft Fingerprint
Reader built in because you can't use the

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webcam for facial recognition login,

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but the fingerprint reader that's built
into the power button works really well.

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And just be aware that you get
one U S B A, port one U S B C,

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port a headphone jack, and that's it,

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except for the proprietary Surface
Power Connection, which is on this side.

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But of course, if you
don't have that with you,

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you can still chart this up using a
regular S B C cable to read our hands-on

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impressions of these systems, including
benchmark results for both machines.

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