This $7,000 Asus RTX Spark laptop feels like Darth Vader’s MacBook Pro
THE SO WHAT
A $7,000 mobile workstation with 128 GB RAM and top-end RTX is a signal that some teams are willing to pay to pull AI and media workloads off shared cloud and into local, predictable performance. If your developers or creators are blocked on GPU queues or egress costs, it’s time to re-run the TCO math on high-end local rigs versus incremental cloud spend.
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