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.

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