Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark Review Roundup [2026]

Five major tech outlets published reviews of the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra this week, and they largely agree on one thing: the NVIDIA RTX Spark chip packed inside turns the machine into a genuinely capable local AI workstation, but that power comes wrapped in tradeoffs that most laptop buyers will never need to make. Reviews from TechRadar, The Verge, Tom’s Hardware, and Windows Central landed on the same conclusion from different angles: this is a beast of a machine for a narrow audience, not a mainstream Windows laptop with AI bolted on.