Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 as Microsoft puts more AI work on the PC
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is available to preorder from $2,599, with availability beginning October 16. The NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered laptop brings up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen and magnetic USB-C charging to Microsoft’s high-performance Surface lineup.…
The Surface Laptop Ultra is available to preorder from $2,599, with availability beginning October 16. It features up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, and magnetic USB-C charging.
Microsoft is putting more AI work on the PC, with plans to enable Windows to handle tasks such as writing code without needing to access the cloud. This move is seen as a bet that some work currently done in Microsoft's Azure cloud computing data centers can be shifted to high-powered Windows machines.
According to Channel News Asia, the effort is a collaboration between Microsoft and Nvidia, with the latter's RTX Spark chips set to power the new laptop. This development is part of a larger trend, with Apple also working to bring similar capabilities to its Mac computers.
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