The Surface Laptop Ultra is an AI monster with a laptop problem
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Microsoft is betting that near-term AI software will justify a Mediatek + Nvidia RTX Spark stack even if the rest of the laptop tradeoffs are contentious. For software teams, that’s a nudge to optimize for local execution paths and battery-aware workloads, not just generic x86 laptops.
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