Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra looks like its first true MacBook Pro competitor
Summary
Ars Technica profiles Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, a high-end Windows laptop built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark ARM SoC. The device is positioned as a premium, non-convertible competitor to the MacBook Pro, offering up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15-inch PixelSense display, diverse ports, and a large haptic trackpad. The piece situates the Laptop Ultra within Nvidia’s RTX Spark ARM ecosystem and discusses its potential impact on AI workloads, gaming on ARM Windows, and the broader Surface lineup, with availability later this year and no announced pricing.