It’s a beautiful flagship device for NVIDIA’s RTX Spark.
With a name like Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft's latest notebook better be impressive. It's one of the flagship devices for NVIDIA's new RTX Spark platform, making it the most powerful Surface device yet. It can be equipped with up to 128GB of unified memory, which is ideal for running local AI models. And in just about every other respect, from its super-bright 15-inch screen to its sleek case, the Surface Laptop Ultra screams quality. So sure, the name fits.
But with its high $2,599 starting price, which easily escalates if you want to go beyond its stock 24GB of RAM, the Surface Laptop Ultra is really only meant for the most demanding users. To be fair, though, the same is true of all the RTX Spark laptops, including the excellent ASUS ProArt P16 we recently reviewed. Even Apple is pushing the limits of laptop pricing with its new touchscreen MacBook Pros with PROLED screens, which start at $2.899.
Like some sort of cosmic capitalist joke, PC makers have inexplicably decided to release pricier computers, even though we're already suffering from AI-driven memory price hikes.
