Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop
The 15-inch Windows laptop uses Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip for local AI tasks and can reach 1 petaflop of performance, Microsoft said.
- On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box in San Francisco, with preorders live and the laptop shipping Oct. 16 starting at $2,599.
- Powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark architecture combining a Blackwell RTX GPU and Grace CPU, the devices enable Hybrid Intelligence; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said this makes AI "everywhere and pervasive."
- The hardware supports up to 128GB of unified memory and delivers 1 petaflop of AI performance, while Microsoft offers up to $1,000 trade-in credit for eligible MacBook Pro owners.
- Rising memory costs have pushed prices significantly higher; Moor Insights & Strategy analyst Anshel Sag warned that expensive hardware limits adoption primarily to enterprise customers and high-end developers.
- Microsoft introduced "Execution Containers" to restrict AI agent system access, a security framework that OpenAI and Nvidia have adopted for Windows 11 to prevent unauthorized autonomous actions.
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Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop
"The trajectory for me is so clear. There will never be a moment where we will go and look and say: 'Oh, this runs locally, this runs in the cloud.' You will expect this hybrid intelligence to be everywhere and pervasive," CEO Satya Nadella said
Microsoft Launches $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra to Take on MacBook Pro
Microsoft today announced launch timing and pricing for the Surface Laptop Ultra that it unveiled earlier this year. The 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra is priced starting at $2,599, undercutting Apple's $2,999 16-inch MacBook Pro, and it targets the same creator and developer market. Microsoft says it is built for "demanding creative, software development, AI, engineering, and 3D workloads." Microsoft's new laptop uses an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, wh…
The Surface Laptop Ultra arrives on October 16 with RTX Spark, mini-LED display and USB-C magnetic charge. Its price starts at $2,599.
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