Microsoft Comes to Kill the MacBook Again

Microsoft is back to their old familiar role: would-be Apple assassin.

But whereas Windows may have effectively stunted the Mac back in the day, in recent years, they’ve failed to put a dent into iPad and MacBook sales (and I won’t even bring up the Windows Phone/iPhone competition because there was none). And that’s despite multiple attempts with various Surface devices. But if at first you don’t succeed…

Its latest laptop, the product I’m here to see, really needs to hold up. The Surface Laptop Ultra isn’t just another high-end config of the Surface Laptop, it’s the debut platform for Nvidia’s RTX Spark — Nvidia’s entrance into the world of Arm-based PC chips, and a chance to blow expectations out of the water when it comes to what a Windows laptop is capable of.

Microsoft’s last big laptop push — the Copilot Plus PC initiative from 2024, focused initially on Qualcomm chips — “was…