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Microsoft Opens Surface Laptop Ultra Preorders With NVIDIA RTX Spark and $2,599 Starting Price

October 7, 2026 at 17:35 EDT

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Microsoft opened preorders for Surface Laptop Ultra, a new flagship Surface notebook built around NVIDIA RTX Spark, starting at $2,599 with availability beginning October 16. The company is positioning the machine as a local-AI workstation for creators, developers and agent workflows, and says RTX Spark Windows PCs can beat a comparable Apple MacBook Pro M5 Pro on selected AI-generation tasks.

October 7, 2026 - Microsoft

Surface Laptop Ultra enters the local-AI race

Microsoft opened preorders for a $2,599 NVIDIA RTX Spark laptop built for local agents, creative AI and CUDA development, with availability beginning October 16.

$2,599

Surface Laptop Ultra starting price

128 GB

Maximum unified memory

120B+

Local model parameter class

1 PF

Theoretical FP4 AI compute

Selected AI speed claims versus MacBook Pro M5 Pro

Vertical columns show the reported multipliers for RTX Spark Windows PCs on three local AI tasks.

2.1x

First token

4.3x

Image generation

6.2x

Video generation

Local model

CUDA stack

Contained agent

Cloud overflow

Microsoft's pitch is hybrid intelligence: run agent work locally when practical, then route larger jobs to cloud capacity.

Why builders care

Large unified memory, CUDA support and local execution make the device relevant for coding agents, model testing and creative AI workflows.

What remains open

Independent benchmarks, battery behavior under sustained AI loads and Windows-on-Arm app fit will decide how broad the appeal becomes.

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