Yesterday, Microsoft held a Surface event out in San Francisco and unveiled its peak mobile computing device: the Surface Laptop Ultra. This machine is poised to be the only laptop you’ll ever need, as it’s equipped with top-tier specs to handle everything from everyday things to video editing to AI, with a $2,500 starting price point.
The latest Surface is armed with an aluminum build that weighs 4.41 lbs and a large trackpad that supports haptic feedback. There are also a pair of dual mics, a quad-speaker setup that supports Dolby Atmos, and a built-in 1080p camera. Regarding ports, it’s equipped with three USB-C ports, an HDMI port, a single USB-A port, an SD card reader, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The laptop also includes a version of Apple’s MagSafe charger for its MacBooks, in the form of a magnetic USB-C charging cable.
Also, there’s a 15-inch 120 Hz mini-LED touchscreen HDR display with up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness. Its screen also supports gestures, but not a stylus. Under the hood lies NVIDIA’s newest RTX Spark, an Arm-based processor, coupled with 24 GB of RAM and a 512 GB base storage configuration with up to a 15-hour battery life and runs Windows 11 Home or Pro configurations. Microsoft maxes it out at 128GB of RAM, a 20-core CPU, and 1TB of storage for a whopping $5,900.
Preorders are available effective yesterday, and it will go on sale on October 16. Microsoft is offering $1,000 cash back for MacBook owners who trade in an eligible device towards a new Surface Laptop Ultra. The company also unveiled a Mac Studio competitor with the $6,000 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, which is also powered by NVIDIA’s Spark chip with maxed out specs, and capable of up to 1 petaflop of AI performance.
