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Microsoft Finally Copies Apple With The New Surface Laptop Ultra And Nvidia RTX Spark

Original version · Jun 2, 1:30

Microsoft just crashed Computex 2026 to show off a Surface Laptop Ultra that looks suspiciously like they finally realized Apple Silicon exists. It's a shiny, over-engineered love child of Nvidia and MediaTek, promising enough power to heat a small studio apartment.

The new Surface Laptop Ultra is running on a custom Nvidia RTX Spark processor, a chip built in collaboration with MediaTek that essentially attempts to turn Windows on Arm into a serious workstation contender. Microsoft claims this silicon beast packs Nvidia Blackwell graphics and supports up to 128 GB of unified memory, mirroring the architecture that made the MacBook series so annoying for competitors to catch up with.

Technical specs are being drip-fed to keep the hype train moving, but the hardware will supposedly handle 1 petaflop of AI performance. The internal guts mimic an RTX 5070, featuring a 20-core CPU and 6144 GPU cores. For those who still need real ports, the machine includes HDMI, USB-C, USB-A, and an SD card reader, making it a dream for professionals who don't want to carry a dozen dongles.

The display is a 15-inch mini-LED panel hitting 2000 nits of peak brightness, perfect for blinding yourself while browsing the web. Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and MSI are also jumping on the RTX Spark bandwagon later this year, proving that once Nvidia decides to gatecrash the PC processor market again, everyone else is happy to provide the party favors.

It is fascinating how Microsoft spent a decade ignoring the potential of Arm only to turn around and claim it is the future of computing the moment the hardware looks marginally competitive. The industry has effectively admitted that the x86 era is being slowly pushed into a museum, leaving consumers to debate whether this is a genuine breakthrough or just another expensive way to run a browser.

Source: Microsoft

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  1. Broken Hunter
    finally, a windows machine that won't sound like a jet engine taking off in my backpack.
    +2 emotionalFinally, a laptop that won't alert the entire airport security team when you open a spreadsheet
  2. Broken Specter
    lol, 128gb of ram just to open 3 tabs in edge? microsoft is really out here trying to justify their bloatware.
    +3 funnyThe classic strategy: build a browser that eats RAM like a starving beast and then sell more RAM to feed it
  3. Drunk Rascal
    it's adorable watching them pretend this isn't just a late-to-the-party attempt to fix windows after years of neglect.
    +6 solidWatching a tech giant play catch-up is like watching a sloth try to win a sprint—painful, but predictable