When comparing HP Envy 27 All-In-One b145se vs Microsoft Surface Studio, the Slant community recommends HP Envy 27 All-In-One b145se for most people. In the question“What are the best all-in-one desktop computers?” HP Envy 27 All-In-One b145se is ranked 1st while Microsoft Surface Studio is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose HP Envy 27 All-In-One b145se is:
This all-in-one is perfectly capable of playing older games like Civilization V at good framerates without any problem.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Handles old games pretty well
This all-in-one is perfectly capable of playing older games like Civilization V at good framerates without any problem.
Pro Great sound quality
The speakers are placed at the front of the base and at a good angle for the sound to hit the user's ears as much and efficiently as possible. The sound itself is quite loud and clear and is perfect for listening to music or watching movies.
Pro Great for editing photos, videos, or any doing any other visual tasks
The 16GB of RAM and the i7 CPU provide excellent power for most resource-intensive tasks such as photo or video editing. The screen is a great fit for graphic-related work as well with extremely crisp images and lifelike colors.
Pro Amazing accessories
The Surface Pen (included) is back with the Studio, but a new addition is the Surface Dial (sold separately for $99). This dial provides haptic feedback, and can rotate. It has a grippy rubber base, which means you can place it on the screen and it will stay there. Rotating it can do different things - rotate the image on the screen, change colors of the pen while drawing a continuous line, or rotate images in a 3D space (which Microsoft is pushing in their next update in early 2017).
The Surface Pen works similar to previous versions - it can measure pressure sensitivity, and there are buttons on the side that allow for selection or other functions.
Pro Large, versatile, amazing display
The 28" display has an interesting aspect ratio of 3:2, and it has an extremely high resolution of 4500x3000 (slightly more than 4K). It also has different modes (built into the software) to display Adobe sRGB or Vivid Color Profiles. This allows content creators to both see the true colors, but also how they will likely be displayed on an average display. This display has a pixel density of 192ppi, which allows you to get very close to it without being able to see individual pixels.
The screen is also a touchscreen, with sensors for both the Surface Dial as well as the Surface Pen. In addition to all of this, they are marketing it as the thinnest display on any AIO (all in one) desktop which is technically true - it is the thinnest, however most of the internals are housed in the base.
Cons
Con The mouse feels rather cheap
While the arched design of the mouse looks really cool, it unfortunately feels rather low-quality and cheap. The buttons are mushy and don't provide good feedback which makes it hard to understand whether you actually pressed a button or not.
Con Ports are difficuilt to access
In order to make the case look as clean as possible, the ports have been moved to the back which unfortunately means that they are hard to reach and every time you need to plug a USB or HDMI cable you need to move all the desktop.
Con Not an ideal choice for gaming
The GeForce GTX 950M GPU is not ideal for graphic-intensive games.
Con Extremely expensive for the internal hardware
For $3000 starting price you'd expect to get the bleeding edge of performance. But you don't. The internal graphics is either a nVidia GeForce GTX 965M (2GB) or the 980M (4GB), which are mobile graphics from last generation. There is no USB type C or Thunderbolt connections. The base model also starts at an i5 (the specs page doesn't list the specific version) processor.