It was only a subject of fourth dimension before we ’d see our first clone ofMicrosoft ’s Surface Studio . The uber - expensive new background computing machine is part iMac , part Wacom Cintiq video display , and all kind of cool looking at . But when Dell showed Gizmodo the unexampled Dell Canvas 27 , a 27 - inch touch - enable display meant for artists and other creative type , the rep bristle at the clon label .
The rep was agile to say that Dell had actually been working on the Canvas 27 for days and with zero knowledge of the Surface Studio ’s development . Besides , the rep observe , the Canvas 27 is n’t even a $ 3000 computer with last year ’s hardware in it . It ’s a monitor ( closer to the $ 1500 range ) and you use it with your own Windows 10 figurer .
So really it ’s less tosh - desirable Surface Studio and more sturdy workman - comparable Cintiq . Yet the Cintiq , made by Wacom , has often been at the mercy of operating systems never intended for spot or pen remark . The Canvas 27 will take advantage of all the putz built into the Windows 10 Creators Update and mean for Microsoft ’s own gargantuan screen with touch stimulus . That includes the dial — which Dell calls a “ totem . ”It function identically toMicrosoft ’s Dial , allow users to adjust colors on the fly and rapidly zoom , or change brush size , or even switch between apps .
All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo
Dell ’s also bestow a few of its own software tweak including a touchpad and keyboard that appear on screen so you do n’t have to make way for a keyboard and mouse on a table that already has to play host to the tremendous Canvas 27 .
In fact Dell would very much like masses to think of the Canvas 27 as a primary input gimmick , which is why it was design with the expectation that users would power a 2nd , traditional display at the same clock time .
The Canvas 27 is reportedly capable of picture 100 percent of the Adobe RGB color space , which gain it ideal for photographer and vivid decorator , and instead of a glib chicken feed surface , Dell ’s chosen a mat finish so that when the pen is mechanical press to the glass it feels more like writing on a piece of paper instead of a whiteboard .
It should be usable later this twelvemonth , and while Dell has not announce a price , there were suggestions of it being less that $ 1500 , which makes it a bargain compare to the $ 1800 - plus Cintiq or $ 3000 - plus Surface Studio . If this thing can fulfill most of the promises Dell is make , it wo n’t be a Surface Studio - clone , it ’ll be a Surface Studio - usurper .
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