Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event
The Verge Jay Peters ● Covered by 4 sources
Microsoft finally put a price and date on the Surface Laptop Ultra: $2,599, shipping October 16. It also swaps Surface Connect for magnetic USB-C, which is the sort of change people notice fast.
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Microsoft wrapped a Windows-and-Surface keynote in San Francisco with a clear headline: the Surface Laptop Ultra is real, it has a release date, and it starts at $2,599. That base model comes with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. It ships on October 16.
The bigger shift may be what’s inside. The laptop runs on Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip, a sign that Microsoft wants its premium hardware story tied more tightly to this new class of silicon. And there’s a practical change too: the company has moved away from the proprietary Surface Connect magnetic charging port and built magnetic USB-C charging into the machine instead.
Microsoft also used the event to show off a second piece of hardware, the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. It’s a mini PC aimed at developers, available for preorder now at $5,999, with shipping set for November. That’s a very Microsoft move: one flashy consumer laptop, one expensive box for builders, and the promise that both are part of the same Arm-based push.
On the software side, the company talked up upcoming Windows updates under the “Hybrid Intelligence” banner. Copilot will be able to use files on a Windows PC to take actions, and search is getting a new experience that can surface quick actions right from the search bar. Microsoft is clearly trying to make Windows feel less like a place you open apps in and more like a place where the system itself does more of the work.
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This is Microsoft doing what it always does best: bundling a hardware reset with a software promise and hoping the two together feel inevitable. The price tag on the laptop says premium, while the Copilot and search tweaks say control, which is a tidy way to sell the future without actually describing it too plainly.
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