Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra on October 7, 2026, an NVIDIA RTX Spark laptop with an ARM processor starting at $2,599 and shipping October 16. The same event brought a $5,999 Surface RTX Spark DevBox and a DGX Station for Windows from HP and Dell that can run trillion-parameter models locally. Preorders have since opened for both machines, with the 128 GB Surface Laptop Ultra topping out at $5,899.99 and the Dev Box shipping in November. Tom's Hardware now benchmarks the RTX Spark about 25 percent ahead of Apple's M5 Max in AI completion tests, shifting the discussion from price and weight toward whether that lead justifies the cost.