Running Local AI Models on Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra: What We Found

Running local AI models on Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra: What we found

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra pairs Nvidia’s N1X Blackwell GPU with up to 128GB of unified memory. We tested how it handles local AI models on the road.

Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra: NVIDIA RTX Spark means business

NVIDIA officially entered the Windows PC race this week, and its arrival brings a formidable new competitor to the premium AI PC market. With its RTX Spark platform, NVIDIA is bringing its Grace Arm CPU architecture, Blackwell GPU technology and extensive software ecosystem together in a new generation of Windows laptops. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is among the first systems to showcase this collaboration, leveraging NVIDIA’s tech and putt…

Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business Review: RTX Spark N1X Runs a 35B-Parameter Coding Agent at 89 Tokens per Second, With One Major Caveat

The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business is the first Surface laptop built on NVIDIA silicon, and the first RTX Spark system to get a review from us. Our unit carries the full chip: a 20-core Grace Arm CPU, a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, and 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, with the user able to allocate up to 96GB to the GPU. Microsoft’s consumer store lists configurations ranging from $2,599.99 for the 18-core, 24GB, 512GB SSD model up…