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Corporate vice president for Surface devices at Microsoft.
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, the first machine on Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm chip, starts at $2,599.99 and reaches $5,899.99 with 128GB of memory. Microsoft built it for developers running AI models locally, and so far its case against the MacBook Pro rests on the company's own performance claims.
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Microsoft will pitch AI that runs on the PC itself at its October 7 event while the RTX Spark Surface Laptop Ultra still lacks a price and ship date. Windows teams due for a refresh have good reason to hold orders until both are public.
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Microsoft is shipping its new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop without the Copilot+ PC name, though their 80 TOPS NPUs double the label's 40 TOPS requirement. Buyers who shopped by the badge now have to check NPU, memory and storage specs themselves.
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Microsoft has stopped calling new PCs Copilot+ even when they clear the old bar of a 40 TOPS NPU and 16GB of RAM, Surface CVP Brett Ostrum said. Buying specs that used the name as shorthand for that hardware now have to state the NPU and memory figures themselves.
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The second-generation tablet moves to Qualcomm's six-core Snapdragon X2 Plus with a cellular option and a brighter screen, and it now starts at $1,150. The keyboard and Slim Pen are still sold separately.
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