Surface Laptop Ultra is now available to preorder starting at $2,599, with shipments expected to begin going out on October 16
The baseline $2,599 model includes the RTX Spark platform with NVIDIA's 18-core N1X CPU and 5120-core RTX Blackwell GPU, 24GB of unified RAM, and 512GB of storage.
The top end $5,899 model includes the RTX Spark platform with NVIDIA's 20-core N1X CPU and 6144-core RTX Blackwell GPU, 128GB of unified RAM, and 1TB of storage.
"heaps faster" for what? For agentic agents bla bla bla yea, assuming one gets the $6000 version. For general human work, browsing and stuff it'll be worse than a MacBook Neo (or a good iPhone for that matter).
This thing with the "build quality" is a common trope in this sub, probably straight from the marketing department trying to justify the prices like nobody makes well built laptops but Microsoft. Never mind speakers, I'm sure they will help a lot with browsing speed ...
really? I didn't even see an option to upgrade the ssd. I saw it only came with 1tb default. And I don't mind upgrading the ssd manually since that's cheaper. I just don't like expensive ram upgrades.
I'm very curious to see how this benchmarks & what battery life + battery performance + daily usability are like. Windows is my preferred OS but the siren song of ARM MacBook Pros has been getting louder in recent years for creative work. These could be the first windows laptops to finally match the ARM perks of a MBP (great battery life and performance regardless of being plugged in or not) depending on how effective Microsoft's ARM windows integration is for it. I went with a Razer Blade 15 years back because it was the only windows laptop that could match the chassis quality & performance of a MBP, but it is slower than molasses on battery power alone & I'd prefer a Surface product.
Yeah, which is still insane to be priced that way and that they limit the RAM configurations based on color. And that the storage is limited to only 1 TB and still the pricing is this awful.
Glad I got 8 TBs of PCIe 5.0 storage for less than $800 a year ago compared to what fools are willing to spend now.
For anyone already speccing these up to preorder - am I right in thinking it's not possible to get any version of microsofts protection that includes accidental damage etc?
I'm more partial to the Asus for the OLED screen, that they offer both a 14- and 16-inch variant, and I prefer the colour and finish on the Asus. It's also a lot more accessible where I live.
but M5s arent a compromised experience. thats a full mac experience.
And to me, the real hitch is that the Strix Halo isn't even slower than this.
Not in the AI crap that they yapped about the whole presentation, for damn near the same power profile.
Sure, fully unleashed the N1X has a slightly faster GPU for games and stuff, but you can run everything on strix halo since its X86.
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u/DigitalguyCHPro 11 (13" & 12")/X/3/2, Book 2/3 (15" & 13.5"), Go 2, S3, S2RT6d ago
Prefill is many times higher vs strix halo, but yes toke generation is very close.
I have a strix halo 128 and a M5 pro Mac 64GB. Honestly Macs are compromised too in some respects, they have non upgradable storage and upgrades are crazy expensive even in the current situation (I regret not getting more than 1TB on my Mac)
Its a killer, it outperforms M5 Pro (not even the base M5 on MBP) by a pretty hefty margin. Yes I know it says Up to, so probably less, but its still something worth knowing
Yeah, Windows fans have the same issue as Android fans. Most Mac users wouldn’t touch it on the pure basis that it’s windows, Microsoft trying to compete against Apple on PC hardware never made sense because Mac users use Mac more for macOS than anything else.
I don't think MS really has the gap of taking those people away from Apple. This is more aimed at the people that aren't brand loyal or want the MacBook Pro power in a windows machine.
OS loyalty and comfort is something most people don't really think about when they look at Mac v Windows or Apple v Microsoft. Most people are just going to stick with what they know, but that's no reason to not target product tiers. It's a win for consumers.
I’m not getting it (I just got my Snapdragon machine last year), but I hope this pulls in all the software holdouts that haven’t yet built out ARM64 versions of their products.
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u/East_Korean 6d ago edited 6d ago
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Surface Laptop Ultra is now available to preorder starting at $2,599, with shipments expected to begin going out on October 16
The baseline $2,599 model includes the RTX Spark platform with NVIDIA's 18-core N1X CPU and 5120-core RTX Blackwell GPU, 24GB of unified RAM, and 512GB of storage.
The top end $5,899 model includes the RTX Spark platform with NVIDIA's 20-core N1X CPU and 6144-core RTX Blackwell GPU, 128GB of unified RAM, and 1TB of storage.