If a new model is announced, it's most likely that pricing will stay relatively in line with the current Surface Studio 2, which starts at $3,499 and comes outfitted with a Core i7 processor, an Nvidia graphics card and 16GB of RAM. However, a less expensive starting price and a desktop aimed at regular consumers would go a long way to increasing the market share of the Surface brand, so it's not entirely implausible. Given the heavy marketing toward creative professionals that surrounded the last two versions of the desktop, this move sounds unlikely. If Microsoft is planning any significant upgrades or design changes to a new Surface Studio desktop, it could justify yet another price increase.Īlternatively, Microsoft could bring the price down in an attempt to make the premium all-in-one desktop more approachable to mainstream consumers. The Surface Studio 2 starts at $3,499, raising the base price of the desktop by $500, up from the $2,999 starting price of the original Surface Studio in 2016.
