NewsGadgetsTechThe Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599Microsoft’s most powerful Surface arrives on October 16th, alongside other RTX Spark devices.Microsoft’s most powerful Surface arrives on October 16th, alongside other RTX Spark devices.by Tom Warren and Emma RothOct 7, 2026, 5:48 PM UTCShareGiftPhoto by Tom Warren / The VergeMonths after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage.The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness, along with a larger trackpad that supports haptic feedback. It uses Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip, an Arm-based processor with up to 128GB of unified memory. Both Microsoft and Nvidia are positioning RTX Spark laptops at the very premium end of the laptop market, designed for high performance across creative software, gaming, and local AI tasks.It comes with a sleek aluminum chassis that looks a bit like the MacBook Pro, which this device is meant to compete with.
The Surface Laptop Ultra comes with a variety of ports as well, including three USB-C ports, an HDMI port, a single USB-A port, a full-size SD card reader, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.It’s also available in a variety of configurations, with the priciest $5,899.99 model including 128GB of RAM, a 20-core CPU, and 1TB of storage. The Surface Laptop Pro is available to preorder starting today.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Tom WarrenEmma RothGadgetsLaptopsMicrosoftNewsTechWindowsMost PopularXbox has secured GTA 6 streaming rightsHBO Max and Paramount Plus will merge into a single streamer under SkydanceApple and LG team up on new smart home gear, starting with a lock, doorbell, and thermostatOpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughsThe best October Prime Day tech deals we foundAdvertiser Content FromThis is the title for the native ad
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