Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 and ships October 16 with Nvidia RTX Spark
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-08
The Verge rounds up everything from Microsoft's Windows and Surface keynote in San Francisco:
- Surface Laptop Ultra: powered by Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark chip, starting at $2,599 for an 8-core CPU/24GB RAM/512GB configuration, shipping October 16; it swaps the proprietary Surface Connect port for magnetic USB-C charging.
- Surface RTX Spark Dev Box mini PC for developers is available for preorder at $5,999, shipping in November.
- Windows updates: "Hybrid Intelligence" lets Copilot use files on your PC to take actions, plus a new search experience with quick actions; Muse is coming to Windows.
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