Surface Laptop Ultra: Microsoft's NVIDIA-Powered Pro Laptop Targets the MacBook Pro

Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra at Computex 2026, a flagship Windows-on-Arm laptop built with NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, pairing a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU (Arm, co-developed with MediaTek) with a Blackwell RTX GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory. It features a 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra display (2880×1920, up to 2,000 nits), a large haptic trackpad, full ports, and a replaceable SSD, and runs Windows 11 on Arm optimized for NVIDIA Spark. Microsoft claims up to 1 petaflop of local AI compute to handle 120‑billion-parameter models offline, with a fall 2026 release and premium pricing intended for professional workloads and repairability.