


Streaming Game Pass titles to my XPS 13 2-in-1 has quickly become one of my favorite ways to play, and the Surface Laptop Studio looks to offer a similar experience - just with the bottom of the laptop supporting the screen.

Outside of playing games natively with a controller, you can stream them through the Xbox app. With traditional laptops, I haven’t been as lucky. I could imagine myself sitting with a Surface Laptop Studio on my lap with a controller in my hand. The swivel hinge solves that, bringing the screen closer to you while angling it for better visibility. Although swiveling the screen down will lock you out of the keyboard for peripheral-free gaming, it looks like the perfect complement to playing with a controller.Ĭontroller gaming with a laptop just isn’t comfortable, as you normally have to push the screen back all the way to see anything. One of the more unique features of the Surface Laptop Studio is its swivel hinge, which clearly borrows from the full-size Surface Studio. The good: The swivel hinge looks perfect for Game Pass The 35-watt quad-core i7 chip helps a bit, too, though I’m still curious to see how Microsoft will handle cooling when these components are pushed. The RTX 3050 Ti only sits above the RTX 3050 in Nvidia’s current lineup, but it can still run recent games at acceptable frame rates if you’re willing to turn down some settings. Third-party benchmarks show that the game can run even faster on the RTX 3050 Ti. The Acer Swift X managed 64 frames per second (fps) in Fortnite with the RTX 3050 Ti, while the Asus Vivobook Pro 16X rendered an impressive 90 fps in Battlefield 5, both at 1080p.Īt Microsoft’s Surface event, the company showed Forza Horizon 4 running above 60 fps on the device. However, it can still hold up in some titles. Let’s be clear: The RTX 3050 Ti is not a showstopping gaming GPU, and the Surface Laptop Studio is not built for gaming.
