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1. 5h
   Surface Laptop Ultra reviews: RTX Spark AI power, but pricey with weak battery

   The first reviews of Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra are out, with reviewers praising its exceptionally bright mini LED screen, repair-friendly design, MacBook-like build quality, haptic trackpad and its ability to run AI models locally on Nvidia RTX Spark; outlet scores cluster roughly between 60 and 85. Criticism centers on battery life that can't compete with the MacBook Pro, noticeable fan noise, some popular games not yet supported, emulation hiccups and the absence of all Copilot+ features, with reviewers also noting Windows doesn't yet take full advantage of RTX Spark. Most reviews call the laptop expensive, positioning it for professionals who need gaming, content creation and AI workflows in one machine rather than mainstream Windows buyers.

   TechSpot · 🔥 9
2. 12h
   Surface Laptop Ultra review: RTX Spark brings AI power, Windows 11 lags

   Tom’s Hardware’s review of the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra finds the Nvidia RTX Spark N1X machine (20 CPU cores, 6,144 CUDA cores, 32GB unified memory) is among the first Windows on Arm laptops without a Qualcomm chip, and one of the best-built Surfaces yet. It praises the 15-inch mini-LED display, three USB4 Type-C ports and the new Magnetic Connect charger, but notes the 4.41-pound body and the $3,699.99 as-configured price. In benchmarks it scored 3,151 single-core and 20,203 multi-core on Geekbench 6, trailing both the M5 Max MacBook Pro and a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme laptop, while edging the MacBook Pro by one second in a Handbrake 4K-to-1080p transcode and running smaller local models such as Gemma 4 12B and Qwen 3.6 35B Q2. The reviewer stresses that Windows 11 still ships no system-level AI features for the chip—Nvidia OpenShell, the new Copilot and taskbar natural-language search are not ready—so apart from local model tinkering, the experience feels largely unchanged.

   Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 7
3. 1d
   Apple's first touchscreen OLED MacBook may arrive this month

   Apple has reportedly invited media to an all-day product launch in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, where it is expected to unveil its first OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro, carrying existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, a noticeably lighter chassis, and possibly a Dynamic Island instead of a notch, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. ZDNET says the same event could include an M6-based 14-inch MacBook Pro, an OLED iPad mini and M6 iMacs, but IT之家, citing Gurman, reports that high-end M6 development has largely stopped and M6 will be limited to the Mac mini, iMac and entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro. Gurman says Apple has shifted focus to the M7 family, optimized for AI workloads, with standard M7 expected in 2027, M7 Pro and M7 Max reaching high-end touchscreen MacBook Pros in late 2027, and M7 Ultra planned for the first half of 2028.

   ZDNET AI · 🔥 9
4. 1d
   RTX Spark in Surface Laptop Ultra tops Apple M5 Max by ~25% on Qwen agentic AI tests

   Tom's Hardware reports, via Techmeme, that Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip inside the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by roughly 25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models. The report notes that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the RTX Spark platform, which the company presents as laying the foundation for reinventing the PC in the agentic AI era. The comparison comes from a single outlet's testing, and the source does not detail the benchmark methodology or which Qwen model was used.

   Techmeme · 🔥 4

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