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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a starting price (you should sit down)

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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a starting price (you should sit down)

The Surface Laptop Ultra is an AI powerhouse, with Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip and up to 128GB of unified memory - and it's priced for power users.

Microsoft announced a launch date for its new Surface Laptop Ultra: October 18th, with a starting price of $2,599 for the lowest-tier configuration (and going up to $6,000 from there). It dropped the news at a showcase event in San Francisco on Wednesday, attended by Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang, the CEOs of Microsoft and Nvidia, respectively. 

Also: I tried the Surface Laptop Ultra at Computex, and it’s clear: Microsoft means business

I first saw the Surface Laptop Ultra at Computex in Taiwan earlier this year, armed with Nvidia’s new RTX Spark processor that runs Windows on ARM, up to 128GB of unified memory, and a premium aluminum body. 

Up close, it’s a gorgeous machine, with a 15-inch HDR display at 2,000 nits, a large haptic touchpad, thoughtful design elements (nearly invisible cooling vents, rounded edges), and a magnetic USB-C port called “magnetic connect” that snaps the charger into place. It looks like a Surface, yes, but it feels like the next stage in its evolution. 

The other five RTX Spark laptops from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI were also at the event, all of which I first saw at Computex and have similarly premium features: OLED displays, haptics, up to 128GB of unified memory, and similarly sky-high price points. But the Surface Laptop Ultra was the darling of the show with its own dramatic sizzle reel and focus in live demos.


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