TestingCatalog starts hands-on with Surface Laptop Ultra packing NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X chip
testingcatalog · x · 2026-11-06
TestingCatalog is testing the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra — its first Windows machine in 10+ years. The laptop reportedly uses an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU built into the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X superchip. The reviewer plans to test Perplexity Computer and Hermes, running local models like Nemotron, and is soliciting recommendations for local workloads to stress-test performance.
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