It is no great surprise that Microsoft has largely nailed this part. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio concept lives and dies by the quality of its hinge. (Image credit: Andrew Williams/Digital Camera World) It’s one of the big issues for potential Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio buyers. As is the case in other Microsoft Surface lines, these upgrades can seem painfully expensive when stacked up against the raw cost of the components. While base models have a humble 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM, the highest-end specs have 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD storage.

There’s no such cap on the RAM and storage, though. Microsoft has deliberately struck a balance between power and how pleasant the thing is to use each day. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio is a performance machine, but sits a good few rungs below a high-end gaming laptop or workstation. At this level, power is not limited so much by the size of your power brick, more the laptop’s ability to shift heat generated by the internals. H-series chipsets are typically much better at sustained heavy workloads as a result. These Intel processors differ from the kind used in the average slim and light laptop in the juice, the power, they are able to draw.

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