Yesterday Microsoft held an event in New York City that we had all been waiting for a long time, since all the rumors suggested that we could meet new devices from the Redmond company that would not leave anyone indifferent. Surely you have already read a lot of information about the event, but in case you missed it or want to do a review, today through this article we are going to review all the news that the company that directs yesterday officially presented, with increasing success Satya Nadella.
The Surface Studio, the renewal of the Surface Book baptized as Surface Book i7 or Windows Holographic VR These are some of the novelties that were presented yesterday and that we are going to show you in detail below.
Of course, before starting we have to talk about the great absentees that were undoubtedly the Surface Pro 5 about which there had been a lot of rumors in recent days, and that finally Microsoft seems to have decided to save it for a better occasion. In addition we also miss the Surface Phone, the long-awaited new mobile device with Windows 10 Mobile with which the Redmond team hope to regain their presence in the mobile phone market.
Microsoft Surface Studio, a desktop Surface
It has been rumored for a long time that Microsoft will launch a desktop device, inspired by the popular Surface, and yesterday it finally became a reality with it. Surface Studio.
In this new device it stands out in addition to its design, which you can see in the video that you will find in this article, which will allow us to work in a comfortable way using the touch screen or using it in a traditional way through the keyboard and mouse, its enormous power and of course the presence of Windows 10, the latest version of the Redmond operating system.
Regarding the features and specifications, then we review them;
- LCD touch panel, with Gorilla Glass protection of only 1.3 millimeters and with a resolution of 3840 × 2160 (2K)
- Intel i7 processor
- Nvidia GTX980M GPUs
- RAM memory of 32 GB
- 2 TB internal storage
- SD card reader, MiniDisplayPort, Ethernet and four USB 3.0 ports, and yes, it also has a 3,5mm Jack.
- Official accessories of all kinds and that will be on sale very soon through the Microsoft Store
Of course this device has a negative aspect, which as you were thinking is its price that will start at 3.000 euros since there will be several versions depending on the internal storage and some other aspects, which unfortunately will not be available to any user. Availability will be from December as officially confirmed by Microsoft yesterday shortly after the event, although there may be some delays in the delivery of the device if the demand exceeds the initial calculations made by the based company in Redmond.
Microsoft Holographic VR, Microsoft's new virtual reality
La virtual reality It is becoming one of the main battlefields in the world of technology and there are already very few companies that have not decided to launch their own device on the market. Microsoft already had its project on the market, the Hololens, but yesterday's event also served to announce that it has signed several agreements with a series of companies that will manufacture its virtual reality glasses, at more accessible prices and thus being able to enter the Windows 10 universe.
Some of these companies are Dell, Lenovo, HP and HACER that will launch virtual reality glasses throughout 2017, baptized as Microsoft Holographic VR, with prices below 300 euros, something that we will undoubtedly appreciate very much all the users to whom virtual reality interests us a little more every day. Of course, for the moment we will have to wait to know an official date for the launch of these devices, and to be able to confirm the reduced prices with them.
Microsoft Surface Book i7
The Surface family was not only expanded with the arrival of the Surface Studio, but Microsoft also presented a renewal of the Surface Book, which it decided to baptize with the little recurring name of Surface Book i7.
The name already gives us many clues of what we will find and that is Although externally it has changed very little compared to the first version that arrived a few months ago on the market, inside we do find greater power and autonomy.
The company that runs Satya Nadella has not wanted to give too much price data on the powers and the brands, it has affected that the autonomy will be up to 16 hours and that the GPU included, which doubles in power to the first version Surface Book is also triple that of Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro.
In addition, inside we also find an 8GB RAM and 256GB internal storage. Also if this is not enough for you there will also be a second version with 512GB of internal storage. Once again the only thing but that can be put to this new Surface Book i7 is its price and that is the most modest version will go up to 2.400 euros for the 2.800 euros that the one with the largest storage will cost.
On the side we wanted to leave the latest and most powerful version of the new Surface Book that will have 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD internal storage, whose price shoots up to 3.300 euros, clearly an excessive amount for almost any pocket.
Windows 10: Creators Update
Of course Microsoft did not want to forget at yesterday's event the cornerstone of its project, which is of course Windows 10 and to a lesser degree Windows 10 Mobile. To continue improving it and bringing it to the level it deserves over the next few months, updates will continue to be produced and a second major update will also be released early next year.
Until now it was known as Redstone 2, but Since yesterday it already has a new name, “Creator Update”, due to its focus on creating content, although there will be many improvements and news in other fields compared to what we saw in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
Among the most important novelties we will find the new version of the popular Paint, which we have already talked about on more than one occasion and which will be renamed Paint 3D.
As we said, this update will begin to be deployed to all users from next year and during the first semester. Let's hope that this time this update does not contain the errors that the last major update contained and that caused great problems for Microsoft and for all Windows 10 users.
Opinion freely; Microsoft targets an elite audience
Sincerely and if you are sincere today I think Microsoft is getting too wrong lately And if we do a review of the devices that were officially presented yesterday, they are increasingly focused on an elitist public, even more than Apple's. We could think that they want to direct their devices to the business world, but honestly it costs me a lot of work for a company to spend more than 3.000 euros on a desktop computer no matter how much use it will get.
Many users dreamed of the possibility of having a desktop computer, with the Microsoft seal and the advantages that this implies in terms of software and hardware. However, I do not know how many users will be willing to spend a real fortune on the fabulous device that Redmond presented yesterday. At least yesterday, as soon as I knew the price, my illusion of having a desktop Surface was frustrated.
Of course, despite these complaints and tears, Microsoft has achieved extraordinary devices where every detail is taken care of, except for the price. The great shame was that yesterday we could not officially see some of the most desired devices by all such as the Surface Pro 5 or the expected Surface Phone, the new mobile device with Windows 10 Mobile, which could mean the resurrection of Nadella's in the mobile phone market. Perhaps by the beginning of the year when the new Windows 10 update is officially announced we can see these devices become a reality.
What do you think of the news and new devices presented by Microsoft?. Tell us in the space reserved for comments on this post or through one of the social networks in which we are present and also tell us if you expected any other device at yesterday's event. If you also want you can tell us what you think about the prices of the new devices, unfortunately out of reach of the pockets of most users.