Microsoft and Nvidia just picked the same enemy: the MacBook Pro. On Wednesday in San Francisco, Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang share one keynote stage to push a Windows laptop with Nvidia silicon inside — the Surface Laptop Ultra on the new RTX Spark chip. The pitch: AI models with 120 billion parameters, running entirely on the laptop. No cloud. No subscription. Yes, on a machine you can allegedly fit in a backpack.
Two CEOs, one stage. Microsoft and Nvidia teaming up publicly like this is the laptop world's version of a superteam — and the target on the poster is an apple.
The machine is Microsoft's straight shot at the AI-developer crowd that defected to the MacBook Pro and Mac Studio — the people running local models for a living. Windows 11 is getting the agentic treatment too: AI agents that handle tasks for you, locally and on-device. The catch? Pricing is expected to start well above $2,000. That's MacBook money for Windows manners.
The Surface Laptop Ultra: RTX Spark inside, a PixelSense Ultra touchscreen on top, and a very deliberate MacBook-shaped hole in Microsoft's heart.
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Source: Reuters
