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Microsoft to Sell $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Containing Nvidia AI Chip

The premium laptop uses Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip and tops out at $5,899.99 with 128GB of RAM, Microsoft said.

  • On Wednesday, Microsoft confirmed during its San Francisco keynote that the Surface Laptop Ultra launches October 16, with pre-orders beginning today at $2,599 for the base configuration.
  • Microsoft has 'simplified product naming' to emphasize the Surface brand, a spokesperson stated, aiming to bolster its position in the premium hardware market with hybrid AI capabilities.
  • Equipped with Nvidia's RTX Spark processor, the 15-inch device features a PixelSense Ultra touchscreen hitting 2,000 peak nits and delivers 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance.
  • Competing against the MacBook Pro, the device drew praise from Creative Strategies analyst Max Weinbach, who wrote, 'Microsoft might get me back to Windows,' following the reveal.
  • CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the broader shift toward a 'frontier ecosystem,' noting that distributed computing remains critical as AI workloads increasingly move from cloud to local devices.
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Microsoft opened the advance orders for its Surface Laptop Ultra, a $2,599 USD computer that incorporates a Nvidia chip to run artificial intelligence models locally. The computer also launches a magnetic USB-C port and will arrive along with new AI features for Windows, including the announced integration of Muse, the Meta agent. *** The Surface Laptop Ultra costs from $2,599 and will start shipping on October 16. Microsoft states that the comp…

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Windows Central broke the news on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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