Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#2No price? I guess over 3k for 128GB ram and Nvidia spark.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#3„Built on Windows”. That’s like anti-ad these days. Maybe, maybe worth looking at if you can run other OS than Windows on it, but that will probably take some time.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#4No price? I guess over 3k for 128GB ram and Nvidia spark.
Is it possible to be cheaper than the DGX Spark? Because that's $4,700. I would think Spark + Laptop would be necessarily more expensive.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#5„Built on Windows”. That’s like anti-ad these days. Maybe, maybe worth looking at if you can run other OS than Windows on it, but that will probably take some time.
The emphasis on the fans kicking off also had a bit of a turn-off.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#6No price? I guess over 3k for 128GB ram and Nvidia spark.
I read somewhere, $4k for 64gb ram
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#7Surface has seen so many iterations, some terrible, some nice. Still rocking the discontinued surface laptop studio as Wacom on the go, smallish footprint (14”) creative development machine. I just love its quirkiness and the fact that I can jump on photoshop to touch up an image, use it as tablet for movies, or vs code for (not great nowadays) 6h on battery. It is an odd intersection.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#8No price? I guess over 3k for 128GB ram and Nvidia spark.
Also RAM was still quite a bit cheaper when the DGX was announced back in early '25.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#9I wonder what kind of brightness that 2000 nit screen will actually deliver? Everyone rates their screens on peak, but then SDR is the same 250-350 nit range for most systems.
What's the actual connectivity? USB4? with or without PCIe tunneling? How many ports?
How much is it going to weigh? Battery life? Battery capacity?
DGX Spark desktops idle close to 20w on Linux: that's a lot for a laptop. I'm expecting Nvidia+Microsoft stepped up their driver game some for this release, but it's wild how few creature comforts or nicities DGX Spark came with. Launched with and still has almost no power monitoring or power management capabilities. If you turn on the highspeed NIC it turns into a 40W hotbox even at idle. Nvidia has such a weird mix of supporting what they want to support well, but doing absolutely nothing else. The way Shield TV is still occasionally getting some updates is impressive for example, but it's stayed on an ancient Android version & went a good fraction of a decade without update. Similarly, keeping folks locked on rickety old Linux4Tegra and now DGX Spark heavily modified Linux OSes has been brutal. It's hard to believe this system is going to be much better than a fantastically expensive bag of barely managed idiosyncratic quirks.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#10"The world is full of makers. Only a few make the world."
What does this mean ? How can you make the world ?