16 October 2026
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra pairs Nvidia's new chip with a $2,599 starting price
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- Nvidia has entered the Windows laptop market with its RTX Spark chip, used in Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, starting at $2,599.99.
- The chip can give graphics software up to 128GB of memory shared with the processor, letting larger AI models run locally on the laptop.
- In benchmarks, the Surface beat a Lenovo Intel-based laptop by about 33% on text generation and 2.7 times on image generation.
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