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Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2026/05/31/introducing-surface-laptop-ultra-made-for-world-makers/
21•berlianta•3h ago

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whatever1•2h ago
No price? I guess over 3k for 128GB ram and Nvidia spark.
forthefuture•41m ago
Is it possible to be cheaper than the DGX Spark? Because that's $4,700. I would think Spark + Laptop would be necessarily more expensive.
mrheosuper•20m ago
I read somewhere, $4k for 64gb ram
KeplerBoy•18m ago
Also RAM was still quite a bit cheaper when the DGX was announced back in early '25.
ku1ik•50m ago
„Built on Windows”. That’s like anti-ad these days. Maybe, maybe worth looking at if you can run other OS than Windows on it, but that will probably take some time.
EagnaIonat•23m ago
The emphasis on the fans kicking off also had a bit of a turn-off.
lastdong•18m ago
Surface has seen so many iterations, some terrible, some nice. Still rocking the discontinued surface laptop studio as Wacom on the go, smallish footprint (14”) creative development machine. I just love its quirkiness and the fact that I can jump on photoshop to touch up an image, use it as tablet for movies, or vs code for (not great nowadays) 6h on battery. It is an odd intersection.
t_mahmood•7m ago
And I have one that I use as thin client for my desktop, Linux made it usable! 10 year old surface pro 3, 8 to 9hr battery life, takes less than 20s to boot up to Gnome, no issues browsing on Firefox, it's a solid device on the go. And to my total surprise, it retained charge even after almost a month of no usage.
jauntywundrkind•13m ago
I wonder what kind of brightness that 2000 nit screen will actually deliver? Everyone rates their screens on peak, but then SDR is the same 250-350 nit range for most systems.

What's the actual connectivity? USB4? with or without PCIe tunneling? How many ports?

How much is it going to weigh? Battery life? Battery capacity?

DGX Spark desktops idle close to 20w on Linux: that's a lot for a laptop. I'm expecting Nvidia+Microsoft stepped up their driver game some for this release, but it's wild how few creature comforts or nicities DGX Spark came with. Launched with and still has almost no power monitoring or power management capabilities. If you turn on the highspeed NIC it turns into a 40W hotbox even at idle. Nvidia has such a weird mix of supporting what they want to support well, but doing absolutely nothing else. The way Shield TV is still occasionally getting some updates is impressive for example, but it's stayed on an ancient Android version & went a good fraction of a decade without update. Similarly, keeping folks locked on rickety old Linux4Tegra and now DGX Spark heavily modified Linux OSes has been brutal. It's hard to believe this system is going to be much better than a fantastically expensive bag of barely managed idiosyncratic quirks.

throwaway_7678•11m ago
"The world is full of makers. Only a few make the world."

What does this mean ? How can you make the world ?

fragmede•6m ago
Be a creator instead of a consumer.
throwaway_7678•5m ago
But it implies it's not for ordinary makers. Only for the "world makers".

"It belongs in the hands of world makers."

KeplerBoy•6m ago
It means nothing. The LLM thought it was edgy.
LiamPowell•2m ago
LLMs are not yet capable of generating the level of marketing wankery seen here.
ghjseccx3305•11m ago
Windows…
neals•8m ago
I've had about 4 generations of surface devices. Never again. The frustration of that SP4 where every bodies screen would jitter and they would just stoiclly send me a replacement with the same problem. Until warranty expired.

Or every model after that just slowed down to a crawl after a year. Or the keyboard connection not working reliably.

No thank you very much.

fragmede•7m ago
What's conspicuously absent, is the CPU that's going to power this thing. Yes, it's got an Nvidia GPU, but does it have an Intel CPU, an AMD CPU, an Nvidia ARM CPU, or someone else's ARM CPU?

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