When you collapse the display into tablet mode, it still works well and is great for drawing. In laptop mode, as I mentioned above, the SLS works great. Instead, the laptop relies on magnets to hold the display in place, which severely limits how you can use it. My biggest issue with the SLS hinge is that it doesn’t hold its position. Three display positions leave me wanting more I think about other laptops out there, like the Razer Blade 14 that’s thinner than the SLS (plinth included) and also sports a more powerful GPU, and wonder why Microsoft didn’t make the SLS a more uniform shape. Plus, when you consider that at best you can get an Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti GPU and the battery life is generally not great (more on this later), the slab seems like wasted space. These are all real benefits of the slab, but I don’t think they excuse it.
I also found the extra cooling power didn’t always keep the chassis cool under heavy load. Thanks to the pedestal’s side-facing vents, you can feel the hot air pumped out of the chassis on your hands when they’re not on the keyboard deck. In some of the diagrams Microsoft published on its website, you can even see how the plinth holds the cooling system. The company touted the lip at the front as a place to store the new Surface Slim Pen 2. To hear Microsoft say it, the pedestal is an excellent and purposeful addition to the Surface Laptop Studio. Plinth: a usually square block serving as a base. When you want to pick the laptop up while in tablet mode, then you can feel the pedestal.
It’s not super noticeable in the pictures on Microsoft’s website, but it is very noticeable when using the laptop. The Surface Laptop Studio (or SLS, as I’m going to refer to it for the sake of my fingers) sits on a pedestal or slab - maybe a plinth, as some have called it. You can find the full specifications on Microsoft’s website. Note: The above specs are for the unit I reviewed.
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