Slight correction, though your point stands. You would need to buy the $2,800, 27" Cintiq[1] and a new computer to compete against the Surface Studio offering. This makes the Surface Studio a more compelling offering on the surface, at least to me.

[1]https://us-store.wacom.com/Catalog/Pen-Displays/Cintiq/Cinti...

Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik has been using one for a week and compared it to his Cintiq:

> Tycho asked me to compare it to my Cintiq, and I told him that drawing on the Cintiq now felt like drawing on a piece of dirty plexiglass hovering over a CRT monitor from 1997.

A bit hyperbolic, but you get the idea. https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surfac...

Honest Question: How does the actual computing hardware on the entry level Surface Studio compare to a $1000 computer?

Not an exhaustive search: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/business-solutions/hp-z240-tow...

So for 1,100 you are getting half as much ram, half as much storage, and a lesser gpu.

I'm sure you could spec out something similar to the internals for a few hundred less with a little bit of work.

Comparing it to an Apple computer maybe?