 So Microsoft has created an all new laptop that is called the Surface Laptop Studio. It's a successor to the detachable screen Surface Book that you might remember and it maybe shares some design sensibilities with the desktop version of the Surface Studio, but to me the Surface Laptop Studio looks nothing so much like a MacBook that got weird. Very weird. The idea is simple. Instead of a touch screen that detaches, it's a touch screen that can fold backward. This gives you the ability to lay the whole thing flat and use it as a tablet. Or you can set it up in this kind of tent-like display mode and take calls or watch videos with the trackpad still visible and usable as you want. There are little magnets that help guide the screen to lock it in place in these different positions. It looks kind of cool, but I'm not really sure that this is any more useful than just a more traditional 360 degree hinge on a two-in-one laptop. It's also a first generation product and I don't think Microsoft has quite figured out the hinge just yet. Unlike the hinge on a Surface Pro or even the desktop studio, this one can't hold the screen up at any angle that you want. It's only got those three positions. In some ways I suppose this design is more elegant than the similar laptops that we've seen that have this sort of flippy screen, but mostly that's because Microsoft's fit and finish on its hardware is so good. Like I said, it looks a lot like a MacBook, but it has a good keyboard from the start instead of waiting a few generations to get there. It also has a very nice big trackpad that's entirely haptic. You feel it click back at you physically instead of it physically moving. This whole thing is very pretty, until you notice that this whole thing is sitting on something else. Underneath the MacBook looking part is a square, like a plinth, a stand, which is how the Surface laptop studio handles heat. It's just a square thing underneath the regular laptop that extends down and it blows heat out of the sides. And boy, I don't know, it looks very strange to me. Maybe it'll grow on me, but it's like one of those fan laptop stands that you can buy, but it's just permanently attached to the bottom. Now one thing that is neat about this weird inset plinth is that it leaves space on the bottom for the new Surface Slim Pen 2. Which is magnetically right there under the keyboard deck. This new pen is a little bit narrow at the tip and it supports haptics, so it vibrates a little bit as you start drawing. I only got a few minutes to try it, not a full experience, but I wasn't super wowed by the feel of the haptics. We'll have to check that out in the full review. Because this is the successor to the Surface Book, it's Microsoft's more powerful version of a laptop. It comes with 11-gen core i5 or i7 processors from Intel. The default graphics are Intel Xe, but you can upgrade to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti. RAM is 16 or 32 gigs, so this thing isn't a gaming laptop, but it definitely has more oomph than the regular Surface laptop or Surface Pro. The screen can get to 120Hz refresh rate and it is a beautiful screen. It's 14.4 inches diagonally in a 3 by 2 aspect ratio. It of course has Windows Hello for signing in with your face instead of a fingerprint sensor and it also has Microsoft's very good studio microphones. Microsoft is also finally supporting Thunderbolt 4 on its Surface devices. There are two ports on this one in addition to the traditional Surface connector on the other side. Now this whole laptop starts at $1600, which ain't cheap. I will be very curious to see if it catches on more than the original Surface Book and its successors did. In a lot of ways, this thing is simpler and less complicated and that design could appeal to the creator audience that Microsoft is targeting. Bottom line, don't get me wrong, I love me a weird computer, but I'm not sure if this is the kind of weird that I would want. Of course we're going to do a full review as soon as we can, so stay tuned for that. Hey everybody, thanks so much for watching. In addition to this very weird laptop, we have a very normal but very exciting hands on with the Surface Pro 8.