CES 2017: Dell's Canvas is a 27-inch tablet workspace designed for creatives

Las Vegas - Don't look now but Surface Studio has its first viable competitor. The 27-inch Dell Canvas is a tablet they co-created with Microsoft which is designed for designers, artists and communications professionals.

Built around a 27-inch QHD smart workspace can be used at an angle or flat on a desk so professionals can create, communicate and express their thoughts and ideas as naturally as they do with pen on paper. For example, through the use of touch, digital pen and totems, the Dell Canvas turns drawings into part of the digital workflow and enhances collaboration.

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Microsoft could be on track to selling 30,000 Surface Studios

The most notable desktop release in 2016 is undoubtedly Microsoft's first desktop PC, the Surface Studio. With a stunning 28-inch PixelSense Touch display, an articulating arm with the ability to sit flush as a large drawing tablet plus an ecosystem that includes not just mice, keyboard and Surface Pens but also a new Surface Dial, this is the ultimate vessel for a more creative-focused Windows 10.

A report from Digitimes says that the Surface Studio, which is sold at a premium price and still unavailable in many markets, is on track to sell an estimate of 30,000 orders. This is remarkable for a machine that starts at US $2,999 for the base model. Surface Studio has not yet been introduced in Canada, with the exchange rate being what it is, we can expect pricing to be stratospheric for a desktop.

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What to expect from Windows 10 Creators Update

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Formerly codenamed 'Redstone 2,' Microsoft's next update to Windows 10, coming in early 2017, is called the 'Creators Update,' and this says a lot about the direction the company is trying to go to. The PC market continues to shrink, yet Microsoft expanded its Surface Pro and Surface Book lines while introducing what they believe is a creator's dream machine, the groundbreaking Surface Studio desktop.

There's a lot to discuss regarding Microsoft's entry into the PC desktop game and I'll reserve that discussion until I've had an opportunity to see the hardware for myself and judge what it can do. Grabbing a key slice of the creative market and moving users to Microsoft hardware looks like a good gamble, specially since Microsoft is unique in offering a fully fleshed out multi-touch and pen-input capable OS which it introduced over four years ago with Windows 8 and the first Surface devices.

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