By Amit Chowdhry
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 19:18:00
Microsoft has opened pre-orders for its new Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, introducing two high-performance Surface devices built around NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Superchip and designed for demanding creative, development, and artificial intelligence workloads.
The Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 and will become available beginning October 16, 2026. Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is priced at $5,999 and is available for pre-order exclusively through Microsoft.com in the United States, with shipments scheduled to begin in November.
Both devices are part of Microsoft’s broader push toward what it describes as hybrid intelligence, combining local PC processing with cloud computing while allowing more AI workloads to run directly on users’ hardware.
Microsoft designed Surface Laptop Ultra around NVIDIA RTX Spark, combining an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 cores, an NVIDIA Grace CPU with up to 20 cores and as much as 128 GB of…
