Surface Pro Ultra review: 32GB of its 64GB memory is hardware-reserved, a headache for local AI
draginol · x · 2026-10-18
Blogger draginol bought a Surface Pro Ultra with his own money and found a surprise: Task Manager shows 31.8GB of the 64GB LPDDR5 is hardware-reserved, leaving roughly half the memory actually usable.
That's a real problem for anyone planning local AI workloads on the device, while reviewers with the 128GB model won't hit the issue. He also notes first-time setup took hours of updates — "more than any PC I've ever purchased."
Related event: Surface Pro Ultra reserves nearly half of its 64GB RAM, testing finds(2 posts)→
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