Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark pre-orders are now live
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High-end laptops with RTX Spark-class local AI are turning the endpoint into a serious inference node, not just a thin client for cloud models. If your stack assumes everything runs in the cloud, start designing for split execution—on-device for latency and privacy, cloud for heavy or shared workloads.
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