For years, Microsoft’s most powerful Surface has been the detachable Surface Book. That had limits to its power, including its processor, which always had to live behind the tablet screen. But Microsoft is shedding its limitations with the Surface Laptop Studio, its most powerful, most flexible Surface yet.
Unlike the Surface Book (which a Microsoft representative told me the Laptop Studio will replace in the lineup), the Laptop Studio’s display is built on a two-step hinge hinge that lets it work as a laptop; fold forward into “Stage mode” to hide the keyboard and focus on the screen; and fold further into “Studio mode,” making it a drawing or writing canvas.
