Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event
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Surface Laptop Ultra at a $2,599 entry price with an RTX Spark Arm chip is Microsoft’s reference design for AI-first PCs. If you build Windows software, assume your power users will have serious local inference and start planning features that exploit it rather than just tolerating it.
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