Microsoft doubles down on local AI with Nvidia RTX Spark Surface Ultra priced up to $5,899
MooseEfficient2151 · reddit · 2026-10-10
Per TrendForce, Microsoft is expanding its local AI push with Nvidia RTX Spark Surface Ultra machines priced up to $5,899, with new Surface and RTX Spark laptops starting around $2.6k and hitting nearly $7k for 128GB unified-memory models as memory costs rise. The poster notes local LLM hardware is pricing out normal devs — they run qwen3.6-27b and kimi k2.5 locally with sumus for on-device repo management, valuing the privacy, but building a local rig at these prices is tough.
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