PERFORMANCE Skylake’s the limit

The processor is the blazingly fast Intel i7, albeit a 6th-gen Skylake, not the latest 7th-gen Kaby Lake. You also get a meaty 32GB of DDR4 RAM and 2TB of Rapid Hybrid Drive storage.

However, the job of pushing the pixels around that huge screen has been left to an Nvidia GTX 980M. That’s a mobile chip, so you’ll need to halve the native resolution of newer juggernaut titles.

Industrial-strength gaming aside, the Studio is snappy, and is happy to flick between intensive applications.